the sun rises somewhere at any given moment

Almost a century ago, Virginia Woolf, one of the most acclaimed writers, pondered what it means and how important it is to “have a place of one’s own.” Thinking about the perspective of women, she took as her starting point a room in which they would have unlimited space just for themselves. It should be a completely different interior than the one imposed on women by art history or literature. Emilia Kina, an artist from Krakow, uses the figure of a curtain, with its ability to reveal and conceal reality, to introduce agency into “one’s own space.” Anyone can enter the installation she has devised and then close it and conceal their secrets.