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Olga Rook Olga Rook is a photographer based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her artistic approach can be characterized as poetic conceptualism, grounded in ideas but flavored with poetry. Olga obtained her master’s and PhD degrees in History and specialized in Renaissance culture. She believes that training as a historian and a habit of being able to “live in different times at once” helps her expand the borders of everyday perception. Olga’s fine art imagery is about the “magical” side of everyday life – the symbols, meanings and hidden “dimensions” discovered and constructed through our observation and imagination. Potential meanings and messages are behind everything we see, and whole parallel universes are to be evoked by imagination. Olga’s photography is an attempt to explore ideas and emotions through an interpretation of visible reality. Olga has always been intrigued by perception, imagination and illusion. It is fascinating how our mind interprets our senses, continuously constructs alternative realities and attaches varying meanings to these simulacra. In her work Olga seeks to explore these virtual universes, space twists and time warps – essentially, a travel through the subconscious and, thus, a way to confront oneself. www.lifefixation.com www.olgarook.com © Olga Rook