Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg has filled Galleries One and Two with luminous, glass-like objects and four new animated films. The installation is immersed in a syncronised soundscape composed by her collaborator Hans Berg, featuring rhythmic percussion and sounds of tinkling glass that evoke a strange and compelling atmosphere.
Djurberg creates her films with a technique referred to as ‘claymation’. At the Venice Biennale in 2009, she embedded the animations amongst a sprawling jungle of life-sized sculptures immersing the viewer within the immediate materiality of the images depicted on screen. Similarly,
The crude materiality of the animations seems playful but the scenarios enacted are often disturbing, uncovering taboos or difficult aspects of the human condition such as vulnerability, desire and suffering. The four new films -
Populated by animal characters including a fox, an owl, a crocodile, a hippo and a bull, the animations resemble folk- or fairy- tales. However, Djurberg’s stories do not carry moral judgement but rather place the viewer into a position where they can make their own assessment of the situations that unfold.
Djurberg has also flooded the Central Space with colour suggesting both the dark hues of a sunset and the warmth and hope of sunrise. A series of earlier animations are being shown in the Reading Room.
Some works in this exhibition touch on issues of a sensitive nature that may not be suitable for children.
Djurberg creates her films with a technique referred to as ‘claymation’. At the Venice Biennale in 2009, she embedded the animations amongst a sprawling jungle of life-sized sculptures immersing the viewer within the immediate materiality of the images depicted on screen. Similarly,
The crude materiality of the animations seems playful but the scenarios enacted are often disturbing, uncovering taboos or difficult aspects of the human condition such as vulnerability, desire and suffering. The four new films -
Populated by animal characters including a fox, an owl, a crocodile, a hippo and a bull, the animations resemble folk- or fairy- tales. However, Djurberg’s stories do not carry moral judgement but rather place the viewer into a position where they can make their own assessment of the situations that unfold.
Djurberg has also flooded the Central Space with colour suggesting both the dark hues of a sunset and the warmth and hope of sunrise. A series of earlier animations are being shown in the Reading Room.
Some works in this exhibition touch on issues of a sensitive nature that may not be suitable for children.
http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions/?id=101181
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