Marina Abramovic: The attack on Ukraine is an attack on all of us, on humanity [WIDEO]

– I was born in Yugoslavia, a country located between the countries of the West and Russia in the East, Marina Abramovic begins, then says:

I have been working in Ukraine for the last years. I know those people – proud, strong and with dignity. I express my total solidarity with them during this terrible time. The attack on Ukraine is an attack on all of us, on humanity, and must be stopped.

Marina Abramovic reacts to the war in Ukraine. She lived herself in Yugoslavia

Abramovic was born in 1946 in Belgrade. Today, it is the capital of Serbia, but previously torn by the military activities of Yugoslavia for years.

In 1975, she got involved with the German-born artist Ulay. It was with him that she created many of her most famous works. Together, they dealt with performance art, focusing on the subject of ciaa, practicing body art. Their paths diverged in 1988 – here they also joined life and art.

In fact, this performance was supposed to end with a marriage vow. As part of “The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk”, Abramovic and Ulay wanted to cross the entire Great Wall of China, each starting from a different side, and get married after the meeting. However, when they arrived at the meeting place, after three months of wandering, they parted.

22 years later, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Marina Abramović intended for 700 hours to let strangers look her in the eye. Ulay also stands in a long line, but she didn’t know it. The assumption was: she closes her eyes and opens them only when the next person is already sitting in front of her, and then they calmly, without a word, look at each other. Her reaction to the meeting with her ex-partner years later, however, was not without emotion, although no word was spoken.

Russia attacked. The war in Ukraine

On Thursday, February 24, at 3 a.m. Polish time, Russian troops attacked Ukraine. Vladimir Putin’s troops struck from various directions, both from the ground and from the air. In the morning of February 25, the Russians began bombing the capital of Ukraine.

As Andrzej Duda said after talking to the president of Ukraine, Russian drones are dropping bombs on the city. Some of the missiles also hit residential buildings. Earlier, Vladimir Putin assured that the attack was directed only at military targets.