Inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s collection of poems, Les Fleurs du Mal or The Flowers of Evil, Anita Dube‘s metal sculpture from 1994 will be revived and extended into a large-scale installation. At once sensual and cerebral, Dube’s project — supported by MASH Sculptural Space – which takes the shape of a hollow cyborg with skeletal flowers, heads and thin bodies, angry tongues hanging out, reflecting the artist’s concerns with personal and societal loss in a technocratic age.
Anita Dube was the curator of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018. Born in Lucknow in 1958, Anita Dube completed her BA in History from Delhi University in 1979 and her MA in Art Criticism from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda in 1982. Anita Dube’s select solo exhibitions include Yours Disparately at Nature Morte, New Delhi (2014), Eye, etc. at Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai (2013), Babel at Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris (2011) to name a few. She has been represented in various national and international biennales and festivals such as the first Kochi Muziris Biennale, Biennale Jogja XI, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and shown widely in group exhibitions.