“Traverser les murs” tells how a young woman who grew up in the communist Yugoslavia under Tito’s rule became, in a few decades, a global icon of contemporary art.By pushing the limits of the human body, fear, pain, fatigue, in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation, Marina Abramovic revolutionized the art of performance, becoming one of the most important inspirers of the aesthetics of pop culture in the 21st century.

In 2010, more than 750,000 people flocked to the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the chance to witness the performance celebrating Marina Abramovic’s fifty-year career …