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Marlene Dumas grew up in Stellenbosch but has lived and worked mainly in the Netherlands since 1975. Through her focus on the human figure, Dumas merges themes of race… |
Marlene Dumas grew up in Stellenbosch but has lived and worked mainly in the Netherlands since 1975. Through her focus on the human figure, Dumas merges themes of race, sexuality, and social identity with personal experience and art-historical antecedents to create a unique perspective on important and controversial issues of the day. Throughout the eighties she focused on representing the human body in ways that aggressively challenged societal norms and conventions. By the early nineties she had become a presence on the global art scene with solo exhibitions at various galleries in the world.
