Marina Abramović: ‘We are all responsible for the ocean’

A still from Performance for the Oceans (2024), a collaboration between Marina Abramović and Blue Marine Foundation. I’m grateful to have filmed this project, captured on Fire Island, off the coast of Long Island, New York.

Abramović is one of 10 international artists, including Ai Weiwei and Edmund de Waal, who have donated artworks to the auction Blue: Art for the Ocean. The works will be offered by Christie’s in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 10 October 2024, in support of Blue Marine Foundation, a conservation charity dedicated to restoring the ocean to health by addressing overfishing. Abramović’s contribution is a photograph (the first of an edition of three, plus two artist’s proofs) from Performance for the Oceans (2024), in which she stands on the shore of Fire Island, a sandbar off Long Island, New York, and offers her unconditional love and energy to the ocean.