In Norwegian artist
A K Dolven's beautiful new show, two major works take up Wilkinson's cavernous space in Vyner Street. Downstairs is
ahead -- we are presented with a snow-covered rocky hillside on which figures laboriously manhandle one of their group upside-down on a sharp incline in a single take. Their stark black figures contrast with the blinding white snowscape, projected onto a room-sized inclined panel. Surrounded on the floor with blanket seating, and accompanied by a separate video monitor showing a hand-held jump-cut re-interpretation of the scene, this all makes for a hugely impressive piece. Upstairs is a similarly characteristic Dolven examination of the relationship between body and landscape:
the day the sky became my ground. A bleached-out continuous-loop film depicts a young girl spinning round and round, while the camera, positioned so close as to render the image almost abstract, tracks her spinning figure up and down and reverses itself with each finished cycle -- hence the title. The end result is truly a beautiful and hypnotic work.
NB: runs till 14/03.