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Marina Abramovic on her ‘really good plan’ to lose her virginity
Performance artist Marina Abramovic, best known for her performance at the MOMA, ‘The Artist Is Present’, shares a story from her autobiography ‘Walk Through Walls’, on how she lost her virginity, aged 24. Raised in Communist Yugoslavia, under the complete control of her mother, she had to plot a ‘really good plan’, which involves Perry Como and a bottle of Albanian whisky. Photos courtesy Marina Abramović Archives. Portrait Paola + Murray, New York, 2015.
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