SWEET NOTHINGS

Marlene Dumas has a remarkable affinity for language. From the very beginning it has played an important part in her work as a visua l artist and, moreover, is frequently used as an autonomous vehicle of expression. She made use of her texts in her earliest collage s and still occasionally writes short texts on her drawings given intriguing and revealing titles, such as The Eyes of the Night Cr eatures or Miss Interpreted. Furthermore Dumas has written an impressive number of texts ranging from aphorisms and short poetic pieces to lon...[Read more]