Marlene Dumas - The Image As Burden Tate Modern London

Collection of figurative ink and oil paintings, mainly

representational with a ghostly appearance due to her use of
watered down oil paint.
A mainly limited palette.
Subjects are placed in the centre of the canvas with no background,
forcing the viewer to
engage with the image.
Uses appropriated and collected photographs.
Subjects are also photographs taken by Dumas
Some are more sexually explicit, with heads out of proportion to
bodies, given a surreal impression.
Due to altered proportions, images are less traditional, but non the
less powerful, celebrating the human body, and its diversity.
Images are non colour-gendered.