“I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away.”
Several viewers would even flee after the performance because they couldn’t bear to look at the lady they had treated so terribly, Abramović said.
“Everyone took off running. Individuals were unable to approach me face-to-face.”
Not only did the performance establish Abramović as one of the leading conceptual artists of the day, but it also illustrated the harshness of human psychology.
