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Item: Semite [from the portfolio ‘Eerbetoon aan Jan Hoet (map I)’]
2004
Print, 35 x 45,5 cm (framed: 58 x 48 cm).
Materials: silkscreen on paper (ed. 100 + X)
Collection: M HKA, Antwerp - Donated by Bart De Baere, 2008 (Inv. no. S0404).
The silkscreen print Semite is the first from an edition of 10 prints that Marlene Dumas made in 2004. Dumas takes the human figure as her starting point to develop a visual critique of contemporary racial, sexual and social identities. Semite is a portrait of a man who, judging by the title, hails from the Middle East. In her portraits, Dumas focuses on the individual rather than the general; she does not turn her figures into symbols of broader issues.
