Rapture and rejects: the beautiful, flawed world of Marlene Dumas

From rural South Africa to Amsterdam sex clubs via Amy Winehouse and Bin Laden, the painter’s thrilling retrospective captures the paradoxes and ambiguities of both painting and life

• Marlene Dumas: polymorphously perverse in every way – video
A wall of faces greets you in the opening room. Dozens of ink and graphite images look back at us, wonky and misproportioned, but also weirdly right. They’re called Rejects – do their sometimes wild imperfections signal failure, or something el