Semester Two - Week One
Nathalie Djurberg's - Claymation
From what I have read and seen of Nathalie Djurberg's work the understanding of the word claymation is a mixture of the words clay and animation , which you can put together her work is animation made from clay
Djurberg's work has been refereed to as 'surrealistic garden of Eden? and all that is natural goes awry?" from what i understand this is a utopia which has gone wrong. The digital video, mixed media instillation is made of 34 large sculptures. Djurberg's work has been widely recognised and was awarded the silver lion for a promising young artist.
After watching Djurberg's work you are filled with many emotions.. At first you feel quite disturbed by the work and you question yourself what is the artist trying to get across to us the audience? and when I see this work I feel Nathalie is showing us the some of the realities of the real world through child like clay animation figures.
The connection i make with Nathalie Djurberg's work and the ideas of children stories and innocence is the clay made figurines that look as if a child had made them or would play with them. The clay animation reminds me of play dough which reminds me of children and their innocence and the clay animation reminds me of puppets like when you were told children's stories and they used puppets, but a lot of Djuberg's work is quite disturbing and moves away from the idea of children's stories and innocence.
In the design world with a lot of designers there has been a current fascination with turning innocent and sweet into something disturbing. I believe this is a way designers are telling the truth in a sense showing that not everything in the world is rainbows and butterflies that there is a real world out there and disturbing things do happen.
references
http://www.zachfeuer.com/nathaliedjurberg.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathalie_Djurberg
Hi Stacy! I like how you described and connected your own opinions and ideas towards Djurberg's exploration around the idea of using children's stories and innocence in her own works. I find her work very very interesting! Even though her works are somewhat explicit and quite disturbing towards her viewers, it still manages to capture attention effectively and directly. Like you said 'after watching Djurberg's work you are filled with many emotions', these emotions that Djurberg puts in her works is the key that makes her work acceptable and very unique! Only by using claymation figures she gets away with the ideas of featuring the sadistic and darker side of the human nature, by using the innocence of clay and balancing out her two concepts.
ReplyDeleteCharize sums up the nature of Djurbergs work perfectly! and the point stacy brought up about playdough reminded me of making stuff out of plastacine as a kid...at the time i would hae never have though of making pornographic, grungy doll-women with huge boobs, let alone a creepy hallucinatory garden! but that's exactly the point. i think innocence and ignorance are closly related, Djurbergs claymation explores this effectively.
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