“When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.”

Serbian conceptual and performance artist

Marina Abramović is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Active for more than four decades, she is known for work that has helped define performance art. Her art explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Her work has been described as reshaping the language of contemporary performance art.