Marina Abramović (Hon RA), the Belgrade-born artist, sculptor and film-maker has made performance art her life's work. Her body has been her tool, used to create art forms that stretch the exploration of the subconscious through physical, and at times brutal, presentations. It has always been her subject and medium. At the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the exhibition 'Marina Abramović' surveys her remarkable career. In the show, some of her original performances dating from 1970s are recreated as live performance by a trained team from the Maria Abramović Institute, a foundation the artist created in 2010. Her artworks, sculptures and filmed performance fill the gallery spaces, giving an insight to works that have defined her career. Growing up in Belgrade, her life story tells of a strictly-disciplined, often cruel childhood living with her mother. Her father left the family home when Abramović was seventeen. Graduating from the city's Academy of Fine Arts
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