can women think
a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i

oil on aluminum, 2003-04
250 x 250cm

A K Dolven’s paintings have to be experienced physically and cannot be reproduced faithfully on screen.

Like her films, Dolven’s paintings seem to be characterized by a dichotomy of ethereal beauty on the one hand and an underlying sense of silent terror on the other. Their whiteness is numinous, transcendental light, but also inspires a fear of void, of nothingness. (Andrea Schlieker)

can women think borrows its title from Kan Kvinnor tënka?, a book about female thinkers and philosophers by Tuva Korsström, where she brings more or less invisible women in our history of philosophy into light.

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