Marlene DumasJihoafrická republika, 1953Albino
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Marlene Dumas painted Albino in 1986; it is at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. The subject is a Black African person with albinism, whose appearance unsettles conventional racial categories. Dumas coloured the hair and skin an unhealthy green, further disrupting a division into black and white. The portrait questions the ability of race and colour to describe identity adequately. Raised as a white woman under South African apartheid, Dumas repeatedly addressed racial politics alongside questions of gender, beauty and the violence of oppression.
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Since the early 1980s, Marlene Dumas has created paintings and drawings that raise provocative questions about gender, beauty, sexuality, race, and related conditions of oppression and violence. As a white woman who was raised under apartheid rule in South Africa, some of her strongest works tackle complicated themes of racial politics.
This representation of a black African albino suggests that race and color are social constructs that fail to correspond to identity. By choosing a subject whose very existence defies conventional racial categories, and by rendering his skin tone and hair color in a sickly green hue, Dumas pictorially destabilized the division between black and white.
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