Marina Abramovic
This is an action within life. Intensified. In a lot of Marina Abramovic's works, she is dancing, screaming, or in this case combing her thick dark hair and face with a metal brush, with increasing violence, while intoning for hours and hours the mantra "Art must be beautiful. Artist must be beautiful". It becomes meditative, in an absurd, unsettling way. Obsessed with her physical appearance, she probably wasn't being that ironic. In other performances, she is often nude, testing her body's endurance or stamina. She always challenges the strength of the mind and the body.
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