My work is about the body. My figures are never engaged in dramatic physical battles, it’s about the little gestures between bodies…The imaginary interests me. Eroticism is when something hasn’t yet happened…»

• Dumas, Marlene (1996), Marlene Dumas in dialogue with Gavin Jantjes 1996,
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