In 2022, the artist Marlene Dumas prepared an exhibition for the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens. She selected and positioned her own extraordinary paintings of bodies and faces alongside items from the museum's collection: abstract human figurines created by unknown artists some five thousand years ago. The exhibition was then postponed for three years, but this book, a beautifully produced and presented meditation on the body, shape and form, was released anyway, somewhat lost and removed from it's context and time, rather like the antiquities it contains. Perfectly errant.
An expansive encounter between artworks made five centuries apart leads us to contemplate the artistic representation of beauty across time and place.
Published by Roma Publications, 2022, 64 pages.