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Caroline Bourgeois on Marlene Dumas

The Great Women Artists

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I Love the Idea of Possession in the Exhibition

i love this idea of possession, because you totally, also as a viewer, feel possessed by them. Of course, she doys that alone. Yes, we included a painting in the so called drunk which is not too far from the smoke. And she shows that what state she might need to be to allow herself to risk to do a painting. So it's always at night and always alone. It's generally inspired by an image. She has a big archive which's come back in different ways. There's no relations with immediate time. But it's a mood to speak about smoke or dependency. Then she works on that mood. And then some paintings go fast. Some painting doesn

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