Luminosity (performance art)

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Luminosity (1997) was a performance art installation by Serbian artist Marina Abramović at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. Along with Insomnia and Dissolution, Luminosity formed part of a larger work by Abramović called Spirit House.

In Luminosity, Abramović appears nude, balancing herself on a bicycle seat on a pedestal apparatus, mounted high on the wall. The artist keeps her arms and legs fully extended, evoking Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. However, this posture places painful pressure where her genitals make contact with the seat. Throughout the performance, the artist is bathed in light of changing intensity.

Luminosity is considered an example of endurance art. The work was reperformed in continually, in shifts, by the artist's trainees for 700 hours during the retrospective exhibition, Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present at the Museum of Modern Art in 2010.

References

^ Turim, Maureen (2003-12-01). "Marina Abramović's Performance: Stresses on the Body and Psyche in Installation Art". Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. 18 (3 (54)): 99–117. doi:10.1215/02705346-18-3_54-99. ISSN 0270-5346.
^ Bailey, Brittney. "Preparing for Performance Art with Marina Abramovic". Gnome Magazine. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
^ Grobe, Christopher (2011-02-01). "Twice Real: Marina Abramović And the Performance Archive". Theater. 41 (1): 104–113. doi:10.1215/01610775-2010-025. ISSN 0161-0775.
"Marina Abramović. Luminosity. 1997/2010 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-11-04.

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