"Tresspassing loss of control"

Duration: 59 hours, 2005

Performed: 19^th - 25^th May, 2005
Exhibition: Egon Schiele – Life and death, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Curator: Marina Abramovic and Cristina de Chatel

tresspassing loss of control... There is a thin line, out there somewhere. It is fluid and yet definite. Life goes on and all seems to fit in each day routine. It's a typical day in the life of a family. Everybody belonging to the family follows certain rules... It has been like that since the dawn of man. Sometimes, those rules are broken because we lose control upon ourselves. The family suffers a chrisys. After some time we try to "make things good again", we try to regain control. Only then we trespass that thin line. We trespass the loss of control. Te entire piece was about being contained in a closed space, meaning also emotionally, and not being able to break out. I was inspired by Egon Schiele's obsessive bonding to his models, wife, mother...