A Room of Her Own reimagines Virginia Woolf’s seminal text through the lens of personal and cultural inheritance. The work overlays passages from A Room of One’s Own—a book that shaped the artist’s girlhood—onto the dress I wore for my high school graduation, transforming a private garment into a site of inquiry on womanhood, authorship, and identity.

Gold-embroidered words—girl, daughter, wife, mother—spiral across the surface as decorative motifs. These terms, drawn from Naehun (Instructions for Women, 14th century), the first book written by a woman in Korea prescribing Confucian ideals of femininity, mark the layered tension between reverence and repression, beauty and control.

Projected text and moving light animate the dress, blurring language into pattern, history into skin. The work becomes a self-portrait suspended between cultures, genders, and epochs—between the West and the East, the prescribed and the self-authored, the symbolic and the embodied.

Standing in the overlap of multiple identities, A Room of Her Own asserts that the fringe is not a margin but a chosen space of becoming—where the signifier and the self are continually rewritten.