Marina Abramović had one of that romances like the one Frida Kahlo and Noguchi had, as we have wrote in METALOCUS before, [One market. One formule. A mural by Isamu Noguchi]. In 1975 she met the german Uwe Laysiepe, also known as Ulay. They realized all the things they had in common as, curiouisly, their birthday. The mystical relationship between both artist got into a series of performances, between which we can stand out "Death self" (1977), where Ulay and Abramović shared the same air in their lungs through the mouth, until they fainted.
In 1988, after years of hate-love and artistic relationship, they decided to end their romance with a great ceremonial act, "The Great Wall Walk"; in opposite ends of the Great Wall of China (Marina in the Yellow Sea, Ulay in the Gobi Desert), they walked more than 2000 km for 90 days, so as to meet in the middle and say goodbye forever.
In 2010, the MoMA organized a retrospective to Serbian artist, in which she developed the performance "The Artist is Present", which allowed visitors to sit in front of Abramović for a minute, and interact with her in face to face. One of the people who assisted and participated in the performance was Ulay himself. In the video, which is a fragment of the film made from the exhibiton material, we can see the reaction of both artists, in front of the audience in, probably, their last performance.
