MARINA ABRAMOVIC
Ancestor I

“One day when I was living in Australia with the Aborigines, an old man walked me through the landscape to show me his grandfather.

His grandfather was a rock, beautiful in form and shape.

He didn't show it to me because it looked like his grandfather but that it was his grandfather.

He gently cleaned the leaves from the rock and made a dance around it, all the while singing

This touched me so much that I wanted to create my own human rock

This one I created is definitely one of my ancestors who I still have to meet.”

- Marina Abramovic