Claymation by Swedish video artist Nathalie Djurberg
by Nathalie Djurberg is a Swedish video artist who is best known for her clay-mations, videos featuring animations made out of clay with music by Hans Berg. Her work seems naive at first, but on closer inspection, it is often violent and erotic at the same time. Her work is currently exhibited at the Camden Arts Centre in London
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Amy Guidry said | 13 January, 2012
What a nice surprise to see this first thing on the site. Thanks for posting- I’m a Nathalie Djurberg fan