Within the framework of her exhibition ‘The Image as Burden’ at Fondation Beyeler, which runs until 9th September 2015, the artist Marlene Dumas held a lecture on 14th August 2015. The video above is an excerpt, the complete video documenting the lecture is available further down on this page.

Marlene Dumas Lecture at Fondation Beyeler at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Switzerland). Vernissage, August 14, 2015.

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Complete video (1:09:46):

“I want also to say a last thing about Picasso. He used to say: ‘I tried my whole life to draw like a child again’. Because he could draw so well. But I don’t know, again, if it’s the man – woman thing, but I my whole life wanted to be wise and old – not to look old! – but to be so wise, I don’t want to be like a child, because I am like a child.”

– Marlene Dumas

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