The art of shocking: From drinking blood with Lady Gaga to butchering nude statues with Debbie Harry - the VERY controversial works of Marina Abramović
Followers of Marina Abramović will be unsurprised by the daring nature of her latest exhibition.
The 76-year-old is unafraid of raising eyebrows, with her previous work including 'Rhythm 0' where she placed 72 objects including a bullet, gun, scalpel and metal bar on a table and invited visitors to interact with her however they wished - resulting in a loaded gun being held to her head.
During the performance, Abramović had her throat slashed, her clothes cut from her body with razor blades, and a loaded gun put to her head. The performance ended when a fight broke out between visitors.
At the time, Abramović said: 'What I learned was that ... if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you ... I felt really violated.'
In 2010 Abramović appeared at New York's Museum Of Modern Art with The Artist Is Present, in which she sat in silence for three months with visitors invited to gaze into her eyes.
And in 2011, she sparked a fevered backlash when she and co-curator Debbie Harry of Blondie fame carved up two life-size nude statues of themselves with a knife and machete
machete.
Audience members chanted: 'Violence Against Women! Violence Against Women!' in protest to the simulated violence, with one describing the event as 'controversial and unnecessary'.
As the show continued a group of shirtless men armed with meat cleavers joined her on stage and began chopping up the two bodies. The dismembered bodies were made of cake that was then served up as dessert and given to guests.
In 2014 Abramović banned visitors to her show at London's Serpentine Gallery from bringing phones, cameras or computers in a bid to force people to live in the moment.
In 2016 Abramović, who also starred in the documentary The Artist Is Present, sparked controversy after an excerpt from her memoir 'Walk Through Walls' was posted online.
'Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They look like dinosaurs,' the passage read.
'They are really strange and different, and they should be treated as living treasures. Yet, they are not.'
The artist added: 'To Western eyes they look terrible. Their faces are like no other faces on earth; they have big torsos (just one bad result of their encounter with Western civilisation is a high-sugar diet that bloats their bodies) and sticklike legs.'