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A Room of One’s Own is an annual publication published by Artkino editions and Kika Kyriakakou. Its first issue titled "Volume One: Voyage around my Room" was created on the occasion of the Unesco Athens World Book Capital exhibition that took place in the Athens Municipality Arts Center in 2019. The concept behind the particular publication embarks from Virginia Woolf’s legendary essay “A Room of One’s Own” and its relevance to newly introduced sociological and political concepts like digital feminism and the #metoo movement. The room (ma chambre), personal space as described in Xavier de Maistre's classic book "Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre" (1794), where the title derives from, as well as concepts such as privacy, autonomy and self-expression are key points of reference to the exhibition works created by international contemporary artists and writers. The exhibition and publication attempted to initiate a new discourse on the notion of room and personal space in continuation to the discussion that originated in classic essays and works of literature. 

The publication includes original texts by Sam Albatros, Theodoros Chiotis, Maria F. Dolores, Philomena Epps, Jeanne Graff, D.I. (Dimitra Ioannou), Antonis Katsouris, Sharon Kivland, Kika Kyriakakou, Sylvere Lotringer, Antonia Marsh, Efterpi Mitsi.

Additionally, the limited edition first issue of “A Room of One’s Own” includes photographs, installation shots, still images and works of the following artists:Sophia Al Maria, Theodoros Chiotis, Dora Economou, Philomena Epps, Jeanne Graff, Juliana Huxtable, Dimitris Ioannou, Sharon Kivland, Sylvere Lotringer, Jonas Mekas, Maro Michalakakos, Eva Stefani, Amalia Ulman, Kostis Velonis 

Exhibition curator and publication editor: Kika Kyriakakou

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