"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying…to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
Shoes for Departure (1991)
Shoes for Departure, 1991
Amethyst, site-specific installation
Left: Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1991
Middle: Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, 1991
Right: The artist’s studio, Berlin, 1994
Courtesy the Marina Abramović Archives and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
© Marina Abramović
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