Não estive na exposição do Moma nem nunca fui sequer a Nova Iorque, mas, durante alguns dias, andei fascinada com o conjunto de retratos que o museu publicou na sua conta do Flickr.
A performance situa-se na fronteira ténue entre realidade e representação e nesse sentido é realmente uma forma de arte no sentido em que a arte é o domínio em que a representação da realidade é interrogada e problematizada. Não preciso de comer ouro ou percorrer a Grande Muralha da China para me despedir de um antigo amante mas fico contente por saber que Marina o fez por mim.
I have to admit I could never quite get the significance of performance as a form of art until I stumbled upon The Artist is Present that Marina Abramovic designed for the retrospective of her work at the Moma in New York from March 14th to May 31st 2010. While some of her most famous performances were being recreated by volunteers, Marina was literally present in the lobby of the museum throughout the whole duration of the exhibition, sitting on a chair in front of another empty chair that the visitors were free to occupy remaining there for as long as they wanted staring into the eyes of the artist.
I haven’t been to the exhibition at the Moma and I’ve never even been to New York but for a few days I was fascinated with the portraits that the museum published on their Flickr account.
To look at those faces – most of them anonymous with the occasional VIP tossed in – of the people that had come to see the presence of the artist (much more than the mundane promise usually made on invitations that “the artist will be present”) became obsessive and strangely moving.
Performance places itself on the thin line that separates reality from representation and in that sense it really is a form of art in the sense that art is the place where the representation of reality is put into question.
I don’t need to eat gold or walk the Great Wall of China to say goodbye to an old lover but I’m happy that Marina has done it for me.

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