Body of Truth

In Body of Truth we accompany four artists on an emotional journey through their biographies. They come from different cultures that have strongly influenced their artistic work. They stand for the major conflicts of our time: Iranian exile Shirin Neshat examines the discrepancies within Islamic society; Marina Abramović, the daughter of Montenegrin partisans, has repeatedly explored the issues of violence, pain and grief, as experienced indirectly in the Yugoslav wars; the German Katharina Sieverding examines the problem of fascist structures, from the Nazi era to Pegida and Israeli artist Sigalit Landau’s work draws on the quotidian fear of terror.

In a world characterized by profound uncertainty, these four artists redefine the frontiers by staging their bodies in a precise and poetic language.

Filmography: Georg Baselitz (2013).

Video talk with the director