Silence (Blood Wedding)

Anita Dube1997

Details

Title: Silence (Blood Wedding)
Creator: Anita Dube
Date Created: 1997
Type: Sculpture
Medium: Human bones covered in red velvet with beadings and lace
Description of Works: Dube writes "it took me a long time to move away from the traditional understanding of sculpture. Like in the work Blood Wedding, i could use my family historyof medicine as a source to make sculptures".
Creator's Life: 1958
About the Artist: Using a vast variety of materials including raw flesh and mediums like text and performance, she expressly devises her art installations responding and intervening into urban architecture. She has been widely exhibited in Indian as well as foreign shores. Recent solo exhbitions worth mentioning are “In Her Own Language”, Vancouver Art Gallery, Perth, Australia; “Misdemeanours”, Rochbund art Museum, Shanghai, China and a few at New York and New Delhi.

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