With her staged underwater art photography, Dindi van der Hoek (the Netherlands,1976) has been searching for the disagreement and balance of the inner contradiction in the female psyche. Mirroring and reflections of water have become an important basis in the search for her own imagery language. Dindi:"There is always a contradiction in the image. What seemed to be fairy-like aesthetic at first, gets an appearance in which frustration and destruction prevail. As a viewer you are confronted with images that are at the same time, intimate and intimidating in nature. This inner contradiction gives her work a distinct character. For many years I have been fascinated by the duality in human beings. Hidden beauty and vulnerabilities but also the mask that conceals the vulnerable inside. Temptation versus deception, concealing versus revealing, the archetype mother as the archetype woman who symbolizes the deepest inner essence."