When Knarvik takes on Ibsen´s Hedda Gabler, he focuses on the underlying tensions in the play. These tensions can, to a large extent, be identified as aspects of repressed and perverted sexuality, and are not dealt with explicitly in the play.
 
Individual scenes from the play can be identified in Knarvik´s work, but it is perhaps primarily at the structural level that the pictures can be linked with the play, often through the use of well-defined lines that are spun around the figures, from which they can be discerned more or less clearly. The sexual aspect is formulated through the use of nudity, but perhaps even more through the restricted, stifling quality of the interiors in which the action takes place.