A Room of One's Own

This paper wall piece was fully handwoven by Ilann using fragments of text cut from A Room of One's Own. Virginia Woolf's book recalls how, until quite recent times, women were placed under the spiritual and economic dependence of men and reduced to silence. Those who were good at asserting their genius lacked time and a room of their own. Ilann highlights this in his piece, which is particularly inspired by one of the main questions raised by Woolf: “Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor?”