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"Human Behavior: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg"
2011-03-27 until 2011-07-31
Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH,
USA
Nathalie Djurberg, who won the prestigious Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist at the Venice Biennale in 2009, makes her Columbus debut with an exhibition at the Wexner Center surveying some of the most important developments in her work from 2006-2009. This constellation of works, on view March 26-July 31, 2011 in an exhibition titled Human Behavior: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg, includes sculpture and four stop-motion animation films that together demonstrate the range and recent evolution of her practice.
Djurberg's carefully crafted, entirely handmade animations dramatize feminist, psychoanalytic, and socio-political concerns, upending the usual childlike innocence of stop-motion animation to connect her vividly imaged worlds with the most pressing issues in contemporary culture. Themes range from religion to colonialism to race to the objectification and commodification of women. Foregrounding the visceral and physical, her films are at once graphically violent and unabashedly erotic. The uncanny figures she creates populate a dark and strange world, rife with war, violence, abuse of power, sexual transgression, and sadism. The universe Djurberg creates is wholly unrepressed; characters do not bow to symbolic means of expression-rather, the people and animals in her animations express themselves with unabashed literality. The music for her films is scored by her only close collaborator, the composer Hans Berg.
Notes Chief Curator Christopher Bedford, who organized this show, "Through her consistently topical, often brave work, Nathalie Djurberg asks some of the most challenging questions being posed in contemporary art today. This exhibition will demonstrate the artist's pursuit of a core set of social questions, as well her distinctive use of stop-motion animation, a medium for which her work has become a benchmark."
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