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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