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A.K. Dolven

Exhibition — Moulin Saint-James

A. K. Dolven, Melankoli, 1999

projection vidéo, couleur, son, 5'32"

courtesy galerie Gebauer, Berlin

A. K. Dolven, saturday night, 1996

projection vidéo, couleur, son, 8'

courtesy galerie gebauer, berlin

© A. K. Dolven

 

lieu : rue emile zola

A.K. Dolven présente également une projection nocturne dans la partie Outside, intitulée Saturday Night

Born in 1953 in Oslo (Norway), she lives and works in London.

 

A.K. Dolven is a painter who uses oil on metal supports to enhance the effects of matter. Since 1991, she has also worked with video - often a fixed shot without editing - which allows her to explore in a different way, with meticulous attention and minimal sensitivity, the light, texture and colours of things, as well as the most minute perceptions. This work shows an accomplished simplicity and a deep sensitivity to landscape and light in the tradition of northern painting. Thus Melankoli (1998), two legs that open and close facing the sea with a subtle alternation of silence and background music, or Warmth (1999), a small video painting showing an egg emerging from the snow. A.K. Dolven succeeds in bringing out the sensitive where it could give way to the obvious.