The Space in Between - Marina Abramovic in Brazil

Painting with Light series at National Gallery Singapore

This documentary about Marina seeking to find herself and get rid of some baggage in life sheds light on how artists work as a conduit in their creative process.

Marina observes the surgical process of John the God, a self proclaimed healer in Brazil. His home is littered with statues of many religions and there's Jesus iconography everywhere and Catholic saints. Sacrilegious to me. Everyone wears white here and people come from afar to receive healing. He stuck a scissors into a guy's nose, use a blade to scrape the eyeball of another dude (think LASIK without forceps) and incised a woman's tummy and stuck his fingers in.

Next she goes to another place with Star of David forming a cross, with Celtic symbols, Marian statues, Muslim iconography and they are being led around this maze. Children and adults sit down and get "prayed over".

She goes to a rural area when this old lady speaks about her intuition for the healing properties of plants. She first found out about this when she was nine when asked to create medicine for her aunt who just suffered an epileptic attack. This amazing woman is so old and fathered many children, gave her milk to many more and delivered many babies.

Next we head to the forests and waterfall where she poses in white with the beautiful and powerful waterfall at the back. She speaks about her remedy for sickness - eat a slice of garlic and bite into fresh onion to boost one's immunity.

She goes to this home where this amazing woman whips up the most amazing dish of fish with gravy made of tomatoes, onions, garlic, coriander, coconut, coconut milk and fresh white fish.

She was heartbroken twice and wants to start 2014 on a fresh start in a confession on 31 Dec 2013.

Marina drinks the Ayuthasca, a hallucinogen, and stripes naked, pukes, shit and pee all at once when it kicked in. This helps her get rid of her negative energy and true enough the next time she took it, there was no effect.