Nathalie Djurberg. A World of Glass

Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg has filled Galleries One and Two with luminous, glass-like objects and four new animated films. The installation is immersed in a syncronised soundscape composed by her collaborator Hans Berg, featuring rhythmic percussion and sounds of tinkling glass that evoke a strange and compelling atmosphere.

Djurberg creates her films with a technique referred to as ‘claymation’. At the Venice Biennale in 2009, she embedded the animations amongst a sprawling jungle of life-sized sculptures immersing the viewer within the immediate materiality of the images depicted on screen. Similarly, A World of Glass displays the luminous sculptures that appear in the films, made from polyurethene – a material that shares the apparent fragility and elegance of glass.

Nathalie Djurberg with music by Hans Berg
A World of Glass