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luglio 23, 2020 - Kistefos Museum

Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, 'Flowers in the Attic' at the Kistefos Museum


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Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg

Flowers in the Attic

21. June – 11. October 2020 – Kistefos

Flowers in the Attic installation of works by Swedish artist-duo #nathaliedjurberg and #hansberg comprises recent film works and ‘The Clearing’ sculptures, and invites viewers into the artists surreal world of dreamscapes and fantasy-filled re-imaginings of reality.

Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg's collaborations collide to create works that explore the shadows of human existence. Using sculpture, stop-motion film, sound, and enigmatic installation, the artists create worlds constructed of emotional tension, conflict, power, desire and violence. Djurberg and Berg have collaborated for over 10 years and developed a distinct and powerful visual and aural lexicon they utilize to create works that examine and question the multi-faceted nature of the human condition. The work’s, though often macabre in essence, successfully combine dark humour with the absurd. Physically appealing with flamboyant colours, cartoon-like representations and mesmerizing music, the works are seductive and accessible yet at the same time prise open the darker side the human psyche, challenging perceptions and questioning human morality.

Beautifully crafted flowers that look as though they are plucked from one of the duos films are placed deliberately sparsely in the dark gallery space, each one spotlighted and rotating slowly. A beacon of hope and relief one feels when happening upon a clearing in a dark forest ... but who knows what may be lurking in the shadows. The works are a testament both to Djurberg’s sculpting and ability to reveal the many, often darker, ephemeral sides of beauty and existence.

These beguiling botanical sculptures are set against three film works shown in loop: One Need Not be a House, The Brain Has Corridors, 2018, How to Slay a Demon, 2019 and Am I Allowed to Step On This Nice Carpet, 2018, exploring themes of dreams, fantasy, desire, guilt and pleasure. In the intimate space of the gallery, Djurberg and Berg's films and installations react against and create a tension with each another, arousing the viewers subconscious and a plethora of buried emotions. Endless corridors, unnervingly familiar lewd characters, sexually charged acts of animal attraction and repulsion, all accompanied by Berg’s pulsating music that lead the viewer on a journey through memory, space and time.

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