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Hans Berg

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Hans Berg

(Born 1978, works in Berlin)

In Dreams, 2016

mixed media

750 x 750 cm

Courtesy of the artists

Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg combine riotously colorful and unnerving content with music. Painful experiences are central, the human mixes with the animalistic, and sex and humor are ever-present. In the work In Dreams, nature is the starting point but it has been transformed. In a different proportion and color scheme, as in a dream world, we meet the simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. Djurberg references Alice in Wonderland in the work and describes the sculpture group as a teenage party: “The teenager’s conviction, with that fantastic self-assurance, that she/he knows absolutely everything and has a firm grasp on reality has been displaced; it is like waking up with one foot in this world and the other in an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ world.”