Marina Abramovic: The Kitchen

This volume is a set of portrait photographs and videos of the "grandmother of performance art," Marina Abramovic (born 1946). Shot in the abandoned space of a kitchen where Carthusian nuns had once fed more than 8,000 orphans, Abramovic is here seen cooking and meditating. In this semi-autobiographical work Abramovic explains, "In my childhood, the kitchen of my grandmother was the center of my world [...] all my best memories come from there." Accompanying the images is a series of the artist's own spiritual recipes: a series of haikus, prayers and mantras to liberate the mind.