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Human Behavior: Nathalie
Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg
March
26-July 31, 2011
Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.wexarts.org/ex/index.php?eventid=5289
STOP-MOTION ANIMATION AND SCULPTURE FEATURED IN
FOCUSED EXAMINATION OF RECENT
WORK
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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