Art’s truth behind Stella-winning fiction

The winner of this year’s Stella Prize is a novel built around the transformative power of art, as the characters encounter real world artist Marina Abramovic.
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Artist Marina Abramovic is an extraordinary character, the kind of person sometimes described as appearing to have walked out of a novel. She hasn’t, but she has walked into one.

Heather Rose’s novel The Museum of Modern Love explores the effect on fictional characters of Abramovic’s real work The Artist is Present, which was performed at MONA in 2015. In the work Abramovic sits opposite a single visitor at a time, in an intense experience of silent connection.

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