The artist’s Royal Academy retrospective revives her 1977 live work in which visitors pass through a naked couple in a doorway – and reveal something of themselves
In 1977, in a gallery in Bologna, the artist Marina Abramović and her lover and collaborator, Ulay, stood naked in a narrow doorway, staring intently at one another, as the public squeezed between them.
Last week Imponderabilia, as the piece is called, was resurrected with 37 “re-performers” for the artist’s blockbuster retrospective at the Royal Academy in London.
