Marina Abramović: The Body as Battlefield Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia – now Serbia – in 1946, Marina Abramović’s life has been a relentless exploration of the boundaries between self and audience, body and mind. Raised within a complex family history intertwined with partisan warfare and communist politics, her early years instilled a profound awareness of identity, trauma, and the power dynamics inherent in social structures. This formative backdrop would profoundly shape her artistic trajectory, leading her to view the human body not merely as an object of beauty or representation, but as…