The Expression of Female Artists in Intimate Relationships: Marina Abramović’s Expression of Female Emotions in Performance Art

Close relationships play an important role in meeting people’s needs for emotional support, security and belonging. The theory of interdependence states that individuals unconsciously give in relationships to satisfy their partner’s needs, and that this giving is in line with their inner self-awareness, which in turn increases their satisfaction with the relationship. However, this interdependence may also lead people to unconsciously seek more attention and emotional value from their partners. This article discusses why female artists regard the intimate relationship of their partners as the core of their artistic creation, and think that the intimate relationship is an important part of their lives, reflecting their personal life experiences. Women artists explore these relationships to express their identity, emotions, and social roles. In addition, female artists tend to create through emotional and direct means, and intimate relationships provide them with rich emotional materials, such as love, pain and desire, and other emotional elements, allowing them to tap into the complexity of human emotions. Taking Roman Abramovich as an example, this performance artist, who works from a female perspective, breaks with traditional artistic perceptions by using the body as a medium and combining the experience of emotional life, the mother of performance art in the 20th century. Her work reflects the unique experience and energy of women and the profound influence of intimate relationships in the creation of art.