A K Dolven has worked internationally as an artist for over four decades. Now she invites the public to a sensory experience in and around the National Museum.

With her video installations and film projections, paintings and sculptures, photographs, sound works and text, Dolven explores the universal through the intimate.

By examining the tension between the known and the unknown, Dolven's works open up new perspectives on the world around us. Despite a wide variety of materials, formats and expressions, her works contain some recurring themes: the relationship between nature and the body to time and culture.

Across her works, Dolven explores natural phenomena such as light and darkness, landscape and weather. Fog plays an important role in one video work, while floating icebergs are the focus in another.

Human presence is examined in similar ways, both in a natural and cultural sense. In the five-meter-high painting _This is a tall political painting_, the artist has covered the surface with a pattern of long, repetitive lines formed by her own fingerprints. In this way, she invites us to reflect on questions of identity and expression.

The body is also more concretely present, albeit somewhat enigmatically, in many of Dolven's works, including in a series of works where several female torsos are turned towards a beautiful northern Norwegian sea landscape. In the video work _amazon_, we see close-ups of an androgynous figure shooting arrows with a bow, a modern exploration of the ancient Greek myth of the female amazon warrior.

Throughout the ages, artists have tried to convey timeless and universal emotions. The vulnerable confidence of young people is explored, for example, in _puberty_, Dolven's tribute to Edvard Munch's painting of the same title. With references to several art historical role models such as Helene Schjerfbeck and Peder Balke, A K Dolven connects past and present.