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Marlene Dumas
© Marlene Dumas — image: M HKA
Semite [from the portfolio ‘Eerbetoon aan Jan Hoet (map I)’], 2004
Print
, 35 x 45,5 cm (framed: 58 x 48 cm)
silkscreen on paper (ed. 100 + X)
The silkscreen print Semite is the first from an edition of 10 prints that Marlene Dumas made in 2004. Dumas takes the human figure as her starting point to develop a visual critique of contemporary racial, sexual and social identities. Semite is a portrait of a man who, judging by the title, hails from the Middle East. In her portraits, Dumas focuses on the individual rather than the general; she does not turn her figures into symbols of broader issues.
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