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Marina Abramović. _Luminosity._ Originally performed for two hours at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, 1997. Still from video (color, sound). 60 min. © 2010 Marina Abramović. Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Marina Abramović. Luminosity. 1997/2010

(Yugoslav, born 1946) Performance
Reperformed continuously in shifts throughout this exhibition for a total of over 700 hours.
Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery

MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ: The woman sitting on the bicycle seat in the middle of the wall with a projected light on her dissolving in luminous light.

It's a very difficult, demanding piece, because the woman is so vulnerable and exposed, but in that same time there is a very strong spiritual quality to this piece.

It's really a work about loneliness, about pain, and about spiritual elevation.

About luminosity and about transcendental quality of the human being in general that the body is just the tool. Spirit can't be burnt or destroyed.

GLENN LOWRY: Luminosity is re-performed continuously in shifts throughout this exhibition for a total of over 700 hours.