BODY OF FIRE

- a documentary exposing the hidden struggles of artists.

BODY OF FIRE

For twenty years, I worked with fire - casting glass, inscribing portraits, performing globally.

Over that time, I learned what every artist learns: the system isn't built to protect us.

The work scattered. I lost 600 pieces - twenty years of my life, spread across borders.

So I fought back. Legal battles in multiple countries. Years of persistence. This spring, I recovered them - 600 works returned.

Now they're exhibited for the first time at Cité internationale des arts, Paris (November 26 – December 26, 2025).

We're documenting this in a feature film- shot across five countries, now filming the final chapter in Paris.

Your support completes production: the team, the editing, the finish this story deserves.

Art records how we live. From cave paintings to now, it's the only evidence of our humanity that survives.

This film marks a turning point: artists reclaiming control, demanding respect, building a different path forward.

GOAL: €50,000 TO COMPLETE PRODUCTION

€10 – Credit in the film
€50 – Behind-the-scenes access + credit
€100 – Digital screener + credit
€500 – Signed print + artist protection guide + credit
€1,000 – Producer credit + premiere invitation
€5,000 – Executive producer credit + private screening

From fire, we rise. From damage, we learn. From silence, we speak.

Help us finish this.

Igor Josifov

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BODY OF FIRE

Igor Josifov is a visual and performance artist who exhibits and performs internationally. Josifov began exhibiting his work in 2000 at the International Museum of Art in Norway and has since then exhibited and performed worldwide. In 2012, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje devoted an artist's solo exhibition: Igor Josifov - selected works (2007-2012), shortly after his participation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2010. Josifov’s performance ‘2 - Dimensional’ became a cultural study that was performed 8 times around the globe: on the opening of Renzo Piano's Modern Wing at the Art Institute in Chicago in 2009, MAI West, San Francisco in 2009, Cite de la Mode in Paris in 2010, 'Aesthetics of disappearance', Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE in 2011, Le Quatrz in Brest in 2012, Abrons Art Center in New York in 2012, and the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens in 2014. Josifov is renowned for the diversity of his multiple works and the way he uses the human body to share his message about our contemporary world. In 2015 he represented Macedonia at the second edition of Diplomatic Art in Timișoara, Romania. He participated at the VIII International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Tashkent upon an invitation from the European Cultural Center. In Tashkent Josifov presented two projects: at the State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan he presented his new installation 'Becoming Clear|Crushing Glass', while at the National Gallery of the Arts of Uzbekistan he introduced his performance 'Fire Within'. Josifov took part at the Venice Biennale 2019 in Palazzo Mora where he presented his new transformative project ‘Че биде‘ that was exhibited in Venice, Italy. In his role as a performance artist, he draws on all types of media to create his performances, including the unique technique of using fire that has been celebrated in his films, exhibits and site specific installations around the globe.