Nathalie Djurberg is a Swedish video artist who born in 1978. She is popular for producing clymation short film that are faux-naïve, but graphically violent and erotic.Her star rose higher when she won the Silver Lion for best young artist at the 2009 Venice Biennale, where she produced a bigger-than-life, Plasticine Garden of Eden and three videos that featured a decorous May-December couple being hounded by nature as well as ritualistic play between bosomy naked women and robed priests.
Nathalie Djurberg’s New Movements in Fashion, 2006. © Nathalie Djurberg. Courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, and Gio Marconi, Milan.
1. What do you understand by the word 'claymation'?
Claymation is an animation process using clay or Plasticine figures that are moved and filmed using stop-motion photography to create a lifelike look.
2. What is meant by the term 'surrealistic Garden of Eden'? and 'all that is natural goes awry'?
The eden probably is derived from the Akkadian word edinu, borrowed from the Sumerian eden, meaning "plain." Nowadays, people also have the explanation of the Garden of Eden is which Adam and Eve were placed at the creation. In her work '' the experiment'', she made the flowers bigger than original size which even taller than a person, the color tone of the flowers is based on cold tone. Although she made opposite thinking that how people generally think of the Eden, so she called her Eden ''surrealistic Garden of Eden''. Her work always in the grotesque atmosphere which is created lie both sexual insinuations and ambiguous relationships. Al-though at first sight the animations seem allude to puppet theaters and the naive and harmless expressions of childhood. That maybe why she called the work ''all that is natural goes awry''
3. What are the 'complexity of emotions' that Djurberg confronts us with?
Djurberg’s work show the human behavior, unflinchingly revealing the inhumanities and abuses. The subjects she addresses in her works are the massacres of innocent civilians in wartime, racial discrimination under colonial and post-colonial regimes, or sexual abuse by those in positions of power.
The views always can find animals pair up with humans in her work and the video which she made always begin with fairy- tale sweetness and dissolve into grisly sadism.
5. There is a current fascination by some designers with turning the innocent and sweet into something disturbing. Why do you think this has come about?
In my opinion, most of people desire to see something interesting issues closer to human behavior, about the society, sexual, individual. And the opposite subject can make the emotion more stronger and clearer, the viewers can have more feeling and the work can be much affected.
6.In your opinion, why do you think Djurberg's work is so interesting that it was chosen for the Venice Biennale?
She used the unique material and commands everything from idea, costume and not least dramaturgy. And the music of ''the experiment'' which made from Han Berg, he played the important part in the exhibition. The music pushes the narration forward and actually creates extra tension.
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