Controversial Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović is the main character in the documentary The Space in Between: Marina Abramović and Brazil soon to be screened at Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta.

It follows her as she travels through Brazil in search of personal healing, artistic inspiration and an experience of sacred rituals to reveal her creative process.

“We are always in the space in-between… all the spaces where you are not actually at home,” Abramović believes. “This is where our mind is the most open… We do not have any barriers and we are vulnerable. Vulnerability is important. It means we are completely alive and this is an extremely important space.

This is for me the space from which my work generates.”

The route is made up of poignant as well as bizarre encounters with healers and sages from the Brazilian countryside as it explores the crossroads between art

and spirituality.

The documentary features healing sessions with the medium John of God in Abadiania (previously accused of being a confidence trickster and of sexually assaulting members of his staff), herb healers in Chapada Dos Veadeiros, spiritual rituals at

Vale do Amanhecer in Brasilia, religious syncretism in Bahia, Ayahuasca in Chapada Diamantina, Shamanic processes in Curitiba and the energy of crystals in

Minas Gerais.

This trip triggers within the artist a profound retrospective journey through memories, pain and past experiences.

• The documentary  is being shown at Spazju Kreattiv’s cinema tomorrow and again on Saturday, September 10 and Sunday, September 18. Screenings start at 8.30pm.

Marina Abramovic´ during her spiritual journey in Brazil.

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