Marlene Dumas

About Heaven


Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: About Heaven. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)


Suspect, Simplicity and About Heaven are selected fragments from Marlene Dumas Suspect (cat.), p.35, 46, 66, 77, 79, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice 2003. The three rooms that are mentioned in the text refer to the different rooms in the exhibition. About Heaven and Simplicity are written on works on paper, with the same name. About Heaven dates from 2001. Here – and in the catalogue Suspect – it is presented in combination with related fragments dating from 2003.