Marlene Dumas: When I came to Holland to study at the end of the '70s, Holland was a very tolerant country. But then, so many years later, the atmosphere had changed a lot, and talk in the newspapers were all about the Moroccan people in Holland and about terrorism and about Islam.
And certain things reminded me of South Africa — that in every period it seems that if you're born with the wrong face and you end up in the wrong place, then you're in trouble.
And so in that period, I did this exhibition called "Mankind", in which I specifically looked at people from Moroccan origin. I also looked at pictures of Palestinian young boys, suicide bombers, their last pictures; and the different faces of North Africa, the Mediterranean; and also the attractiveness and the vulnerability of these young faces.
The real source material for The Look Alike was actually a Dutch-Moroccan actor who played in a comedy film.
So The Look Alike has a bit to do with all of these things. What do you read in a face?