Count on US

“After the long war period the Balkan countries were left with a completely destroyed infrastructure, economic problems and false promises.The work was made after I revisited the country in 2003 and was confronted with the present situation.” (M. Abramović) The original installation ‘Count on Us’ includes five videos all projected in one room. Being highly associative in terms of its content, it refers to various issues that could be placed in a concrete political context, as for example the Kosovo war. According to Abramovic, the work is mostly to be considered an emotional response to political events, which indicates that she somehow tries to avoid a specific political narrative. More