Contra o Muro. Marlene Dumas 2010 – Dumas, Marlene Hete Deal

The exhibition Contra o Muro constitutes the first important group of paintings presented to the Portuguese public by Dumas and a new step in her oeuvre. A challenging and concerned body of work, Dumas has concentrated for the first time on painting architectural constructions in this case the ‘security wall’ between Israel and Palestine, its violence and human tragedy. Paintings, texts and found media emphasise the social reality of segregation, oppression and domination. But these new works also transform…