Petra Rolinec

I was born in Slovakia, grew up in Germany, spent my twenties in Botswana and am currently living in Sweden. Like many other third culture children I find the concept of home and belonging a difficult one and those ideas are what drives most of my work.
My work is mainly about dissolving reality, through reflections and repetition as well as though the use of halftone patterns in my painting.

The multiple meaning of reflection on one side as a mirror image of reality and on the other side, the contemplation of the past and of our thoughts and feelings is what inspired the visual concept for these photographs.

The daunting, ‘other’ reality that is found in the reflective surfaces that surround us has always been one of my every day joys. I constantly look for them, and I see them everywhere. I see the beauty in all the small things and my desire to share this beauty with the world is what inspired me to become a photographer.

In the reflections, a pavement becomes a starry sky, normality twists around itself into something bizarrely familiar. .
Turning the images around creates an immersive fantasy world that lies just beneath the ...

I studied Newer German Literature, Eastern Slavonic Philology and Philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, but I never graduated, because I needed something more creative.
After moving to Gaborone and teaching myself to be a photographer, I decided to ground my knowledge by doing a long distance course in professional photography from the NYIP.

2010 shared photography exhibition BRS Gaborone
2016 solo art exhibition at Hornhuset Stockholm