Title: A Room of One’s Own / A Thousand Libraries [Ett eget rum / Tusen bibliotek]
Artist: Kajsa Dahlberg
German version of the work: Ein Zimmer für sich / Ein eigenes Zimmer / Ein Zimmer für sich allein / Vierhundertdreiunddreißig Bibliotheken
Format: 121 pages, 11.5 x 17 cm, edition of 1000 pieces
Installation view: The Moderna Museet Collection , photo: Brendan Austin
ISBN: none
A Room of One’s Own / A Thousand Libraries is a compilation of all the marginal notes made by readers in the Swedish library copies of Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own. The piece is an analogy to the content of the essay were Woolf, using Mary Beton as her alter ego, is searching for the representation of women throughout the history of literature. Throughout the book she is describing, not only the search for literature written by women, but the conditions under which it was written. In A Room of One’s Own / A Thousand Libraries Woolf’s words are reframed within a collective script of responses, tied together across a period of nearly half a century (Woolf’s book first appeared in Swedish in 1958).