Untitled from Spirit Cooking
Marina Abramović
Serbian, born 1946
1996
A letterpress print presenting the two small words “fire food” near the top of a large sheet of paper, using spare typography to evoke ritual, appetite, and threat.
The tiny, serifed phrase appears to hover within a wide white field, pulling your eyes up and obliging you to supply meanings and bodily associations between the two words.
Made as part of a 1996 portfolio that transposed performance’s focus on ritual and the body into printed aphorisms, it helped broaden conceptual art’s use of language as a physical, provocative object.
Medium
Letterpress from a portfolio of eight etchings (four with aquatint and one with gold leaf) and four aquatints with chine collé; and 25 letterpress prints
Dimensions
sheet: 12 3/8 x 10 15/16" (31.5 x 27.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Monroe Wheeler Fund
Accession
76.2011.14
Palette
Exhibitions
