Ett eget rum/Tusen bibliotek
Artist
Kajsa Dahlberg
(Sverige, född 1973)
Alternate Title
- A Room of One's Own/A Thousand Libraries
Date2006
MediumPhotocopies on paper with graphite notes
DimensionsPärm: 31,5 x 26,3 x 4,3 cm (120 enskilda blad)
ClassificationInstallations
Credit LinePurchase 2009
Object NumberMOM/2009/161
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkIn “A Room of One's Own/A Thousand Libraries” Kajsa Dahlberg has perused every Swedish copy of Virginia Woolf's feminist classic “A Room of One's Own” that was available in Swedish libraries. She then traced and duplicated all the comments and underlinings that readers had made in these public copies, to make a new edition with manually transcribed reader comments from nearly fifty years of Swedish history. This new edition was printed and bound as an artist's book in one thousand copies. Dahlberg points at the importance of the reading, and how reception and interpretation are an integral part of authorship. What she is interested in, and what Virginia Woolf was interested in, are the conditions under which women create.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Osignerad, Inskriptioner och stämpel från olika bibliotek på baksidan av sidorna. Selected exhibition history Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Modernautställningen 2010 (2010-2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Modernautställningen 2010 : [Moderna Museet 2/10 2010 - 9/1 2011]
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Osignerad, Inskriptioner och stämpel från olika bibliotek på baksidan av sidorna. Selected exhibition history Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Modernautställningen 2010 (2010-2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Modernautställningen 2010 : [Moderna Museet 2/10 2010 - 9/1 2011]