7 bedrooms

Seven miniature bedrooms - at a 1:20 dollhouse scale each. These rooms represent the seven apartments my ex-fiancé and I changed in over the seven years of our relationship in different countries. Each model is constructed from the pages of my journaling therapy - written during my time in a mental rehabilitation center, following my domestic violence escape.
These bedrooms are not architectural reconstructions. They are memory-rooms, shaped by the traces of trauma and the emotional weight each space carried. They hold the pain, pressure, silence, and survival embedded in everyday domestic objects and floorplans.
The first five rooms are written in English. The last two appear in our native languages - Ukrainian and Persian - marking the moment we began to speak different languages.
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Project:
Daria Khozhai
Year:
2023
Photography:
Special thanks to mental health institution