Organic forms and natural materials play a major role in Anita Dube’s works. Employing a variety of found objects from the realms of industry, craft, the body, and readymade objects, Dube investigates very human concerns: personal and societal loss and regeneration. Her installations can thus be read in respect to several, rather ponderous topical issues. When she addresses the concept of “skins,” she fastidiously wraps and covers objects in reference to female concealment. These distinguishing marks indicate femaleness and cannot be denied. In addition, shapes that resemble nature are combined with industrial elements. They function as reminders of environmental conditions that are taken for granted by certain populations, but are valued by others:

"Where I come from in India, we save everything, everything is re-used. The logic of capitalism is to have more, to have excess and therefore also to create more waste."


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