A goddess of performance art, Marina Abramović has been moving and shaking us with the same vigor and plastic force for four decades. Of her radical work, which began as a duo in the mid-1970s with her partner and accomplice Frank Uwe Laysiepen, known as Ulay, the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, a collector from the outset, presents the pioneering period: that of the heroic cycle of performances performed around the world by the two artists, until their poignant separation at the end of a long and ill-fated love march in the middle of the Great Wall of China in 1988. A fine tribute, one year after Ulay's death, to the most borderline couple in the history of art. A loving elegy of incommunicability, magnificently orchestrated.
Marina Abramović & Ulay
The collection: Performances 1976 - 1988
MAC Lyon
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cité Internationale
81, quai Charles de Gaulle, 69006 Lyon
Until January 2, 2022
By Stéphanie Dulout