Artist: Marina Abramovic
Facilitators: Daria Biliak – Rita Burkovskaya – Viktoria Donets – Olga Drachuk – Slavik Fokin – Olha Holoborodko – Masha Kulikovskaya – Oksana Leuta – Anna Lutsenko – Artem Mokrenets – Ilona Mrachkovska – Maria Khomutova – Stas Onoprienko – Ekaterina Ponomarenko – Olya Salo – Olga Sergeeva – Volodymyr Titarenko – Bohdana-Yarina Topilko – Alina Troyan – Mariana Yaremchyshyna – Ivan Zavertaliuk
Photographs: Sergey Illin, PinchukArtCentre
In this work, Marina Abramovic focuses on “nothingness.” The artist has transformed the gallery into a space of sensory deprivation, an opportunity for forced introspection. In order to create a quiet physical and mental state, visitors are asked to leave their cellphones, watches, and bags in a locker before entering the gallery. Assisted by facilitators, visitors then put on noise-cancelling headphones and blindfolds. In such a state, the public is invited to experience their body, their mind and the space surrounding them, completely deprived of any sense of hearing or sight. As she said: “The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing.”
This work was originally created at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, and then represented again at PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv as a part of the exhibition Fragile State.
