Marlene Dumas - Contemporary Artists

Over Lyken Lopen

Marlene Dumas, Over Lyken Lopen The Saatchi Gallery
 

Marlene Dumas

Over Lyken Lopen

1993, Oil on Canvas

90 x 70cm

Those who search for ‘meaning' in Dumas' work are opening a Pandora's box of possibilities, none of which produce a definitive answer. Such is the ability of her work to provoke that Dumas has come to call herself ‘Miss Interpreted'. Over Lyken Lopen, which means ‘over dead bodies', shows a five-year-old girl standing naked over the body of a man, staring warily at the viewer and hiding an arm behind her back. As Dumas has stated, ‘it's suggestive, it suggests all sorts of narratives but it doesn't really tell you what's going on at all.'
 
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