Still from Abandoned, 2020, video performance, 3:40 min
In Abandoned, the artist aggressively fills her mouth with sugar cubes obsessively uttering the sentence “I am abandoned.” Like most of her work, this video is characterized by an unpretentious reduced visual performance in which Latinović, starting from the personal, in this case personal experience living in Belgrade, points to the many problems an individual faces within a harsh capitalist society. By engaging in one of the deepest human fears, Latinović senses the painful point of a globalist society, unable to grasp the importance of an individual. The video performance was realized in 2020 as part of a Marina Abramović’s Master Class where Latinović was one of twelve selected participants.
Still from Abandoned, 2020, video performance, 3:40 min