"I use all the cheap tricks of attracting attention: eyes looking at you, sexual parts exposed or deliberately covered. The primitive pull of recognition. The image as prostitute. You are forced to say yes or no." Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas uses the human figure as a point of departure to develop a visual critique of contemporary racial, sexual and social identities. The watercolours from the ‘MD–Pin Up Series’ in the M HKA collection are based on Polaroids that Dumas took in a strip club in Amsterdam, and on photographs from various pornographic magazines. The female body is depicted in her characteristic raw, expressionist style with sombre tones.