During the last years Djurberg has firmly established her unique artistic personality on the international scene. In her mesmerizing claymation films and hand-crafted sculptures, set against music and sound composed by her long term collaborator Hans Berg, she explores the repressed fears and dark recesses of humanity. Her immersive installations draw us into the center of a swirling vortex of unconscious motivations and hidden desires. Obscure themes of revenge, brutality, anxiety, and dark sexuality are acted out with child-like playfulness, reminding us on the fragile border separating innocence from depravity.
In The Parade of Rituals and Stereotypes (2011) instead, we are presented with a truly monstrous vision of political, religious, sexual and racial domination. Innocent looking Lucia star-boys transform into bloodthirsty Ku Klux Klan monsters, and priests and judges survey a parade of sexy prostitutes amidst squashing, squeezing, sucking and raping.
