Viola, 2005

Nathalie Djurberg is one of the most representative voices of the Swedish contemporary scene. In 2004, she undertook a prolific collaboration with the musician and producer Hans Berg, who composes the soundtracks for all her works. Opting for the stop-motion animation technique as her expressive medium of choice, the artist creates highly material-based videos that evoke painting and sculpture, and require the slow time of craft production. The protagonists of these stories are first shaped with Plasticine or clay around a metal skeleton, and are then constantly remodelled and filmed in different positions and expressions in order to give the impression of movement scene after scene. [...]