Nathalie Djurberg's work is at the same time repellent and deeply fascinating in the way only ancient childrens' tales and traffic accidents were thought to be. In only a few minutes her animated adventures unfolds in a mockingly macabre travesty of all things solid and certain  the body, not least, which in Djurberg's universe reveals itself in all its carnal horror and grotesque formlessness. The flesh is merely a shell, struggling in vain to contain a chaos of hunger, fear, and desire. But authorities are turned upside down, too. Any attempt at social order is dissolved in a liberating, infantile anarchy set to the merry tunes of barrel organlike electronica. The feel-good philosophy and sugarcoated gloss of traditional animation are lightyears away, and family values are nil.

Nathalie Djurberg (b. 1978) quickly gave her up her ambition to become a painter after having been accepted at Malmö Art Academy at an age of 19. Instead she discovered the world of claymation, which she has since made her speciality in a very comprehensive oeuvre that has turned many heads and opened the eyes of the international art world wide, most recently at this year's Venice Biennale where she was awarded the prestigious Silver Lion. Djurberg lives in Berlin with her fiancé and composer Hans Berg, who will perform live to her debut film at Statens Museum for Kunst during CPH:DOX. We are pleased to bid welcome to one of the great, young talents of the contemporary art and film scene. Djurberg herself has curated the present selection of her works, which is guaranteed to cause the kind of nightmares a child would be likely to have after staying up for the late edition of the news for the first time.