7 bedrooms

Seven Miniature Bedrooms is a series of 1:20 scale memory-rooms, each reflecting one of the seven homes my ex-fiancé and I lived in over seven years. Made from my journaling therapy after escaping domestic violence, they embody trauma, silence, and survival.

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

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