Norwegian artist A K Dolven's first solo show in China will be exhibited in the Space B of Platform China, opening at 15:00 p.m. on June 5, 2010. This exhibition is part of a continuing dialogue established at Platform China concerning the role of the moving image in contemporary art. Although A K Dolven’s practice includes film, video, photography, painting as well as site specific works, the show looking for balance presented for the first time in China concerns itself specifically with works made for moving images.
 
As the emergence of contemporary art from China has shown vividly in recent years, contemporary art is no longer necessarily West-centric. The work of contemporary artists is exhibited throughout the world as part of a homogenised global totality that comprises the art of today. In this exhibition Dolven is showing four works executed over a period of eight years that represent separate but interrelated and fundamental aspects of her practice in film and video - a concern with the body as the vessel within which human sensibility and emotions are contained and alternatively as substance in a world of form and matter; the existential condition of the individual considered from an essentially humanist position, and the potential these philosophical positions have to be realised within an aesthetic canon.  Each either directly or implicitly makes reference to place and more particularly the landscape.