07 October 2011 - 08 January 2012
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| Nathalie Djurberg with music by Hans Berg:
A World of Glass (film still) 2011
Courtesy of the artists, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York and Galleria Giò
Marconi, Milan Collection of Hadley Martin Fisher © Nathalie Djurberg |
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NATHALIE DJURBERG WITH MUSIC BY HANS BERG
A World of Glass
7 October, 2011 - 8 January, 2012
The animated films Djurberg is best known for are made with a technique
referred to as ‘claymation’. Though at first the work appears to be
playfully naïve, the scenarios enacted are often disturbing, uncovering
taboos or difficult aspects of the human condition such as
vulnerability, desire and suffering. A World of Glass consists of four
new synchronised films with a soundtrack produced by Djurberg’s
collaborator Hans Berg, presented amongst an immersive installation of
glass-like objects. Another new installation will flood the central
space with luminous colour, and a series of earlier animations will be
shown in the Reading Room.
Djurberg’s characters are painstakingly handcrafted and over recent
years this crude materiality has expanded into immersive installations.
At the Venice Biennale two years ago, Djurberg embedded her projections
amongst a sprawling jungle of life-sized sculptures. This aspect of her
practice is continued in A World of Glass, which will fill the galleries
with luminous objects, made from a translucent man-made material that
shares the apparent fragility and elegance of glass.
Each of the four films in A World of Glass addresses a shared theme of
sexual discovery, exploring the untamed forces that drive desire and the
fragile, precarious nature of this rite-of-passage. The dark and
foreboding atmosphere of the installation links Djurberg’s work to the
subversive imagination of Goya. Resembling folk- or fairy- tales,
Djurberg’s stories do not carry moral judgement but rather place the
viewer in a position where they can make their own assessment of the
issues that are raised.
Some works in this exhibition touch on issues of a sensitive nature that may not be suitable for children.
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