Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

Marina Abramović's exhibition at the MoMa, was by far one of the most interesting and thought provoking things I've been to. Her videos and photograph were raw and inviting. I found it interesting that nothing she did, she kept secret. Every part of her life was shown in images on a screen, printed on a wall, or enacted by models.
She begins her work in her 20s and documents most of her life from then on, including when she first meets a greta influence and partner in life, to when they break up and her representation of it. His inclusion in the piece and the easy body language between the two show some of the inside of their relationship. The video of them running towards each other on the Great Wall is a very emotional and understandable turmoil of how she feels between the two of them and the relationship that once was, but is no longer.
I personally, connected with her piece called "Freeing the Body", in which she dances and jumps around with her face covered in a black cloth bag. Her nude body is the image of vulnerability and the objectification of the body in its purest form. Her covered face can be seen as allowing the dancing body to be associated or identified with by any viewer.
Her artwork, it seems in an inviting and questioning experience for the artist and the viewer and how the two can interact with one another without even meeting. In The Artist is Present, her interaction with the person across from her was one, in which the video documented. There was no verbal interaction but rather just eye and emotional connection by the long period of time in which they stared at one another.