Relation in movement 1977

This is a performance document by Marina Abramović: an action, a photo, a residue. I wonder what it was like to be there, on that gritty surface, making your mark? It feels a little lonely and stark. The high-contrast image turns it into an almost graphic space. Look at that circle, that large dark ring. I can imagine Abramović, again and again, pacing it out. The black line starts to feel less like a shape and more like a trace of the artist's movement. Was she thinking about crop circles? About ritual? About the traces of daily life? Did she do it once, or many times? These simple forms and the way they record gestures remind me of the work of other artists who work with movement such as Lynda Benglis. There’s an ongoing conversation between artists across time, inspiring each other’s creativity. It's a work of embodied expression, of experimentation, capturing a moment of performance through the black and white grain.