Referencing A Room of One's Own and Virginia Woolf’s call for women’s creative and intellectual independence, A Room of Her Own deconstructs the dollhouse. It rebuilds it through visible acts of repair. Its fractured walls are held together with wire, illustrating the structure as both broken and under active reconstruction.

In this transformed space, small black-and-white portraits of women remain steady, each within its own frame. The work encourages a slower gaze, where each face carries its own history, asking not only to be seen but to be recognized for the fullness of what has been lived and carried forward, as well as in the agency each woman holds inside and outside the frame.

Donna Bassin is a photo-based artist, filmmaker, psychologist, professor, and author whose work confronts the fractures of contemporary life. Born in Brooklyn and now rooted in New Jersey, she creates long-term projects that listen closely to trauma and resilience, bearing witness to the aftershocks of war, racism, and social injustice, and more recently, to the wounds we inflict on our environment. Through her lens, what is broken is named, and what endures is given space to be seen.