Marlene Dumas was born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa, and grew up east of the city in Kuils River, on a vineyard owned by her family. The country’s politics were not pretty. Apartheid was taking shape and Dumas, a white child of Afrikaans descent, witnessed it. By the time she was a college student at the University of Cape Town, she was enormously preoccupied with white privilege and its ramifications. In 1973, she began painting small portraits with loose brushstrokes, distorting her figures as a way to reflect on identity. Her subject, one might say, is humanity. For her first solo show in Greece, the artist presents 40 paintings and works on paper, created over the last 30 years. They are placed in dialogue with 14 artifacts of Cycladic art—handpicked by Dumas herself. —Elena Clavarino