Woman and fiction, Itziar Okariz, (AL Series n. 5)

Itziar Okariz is known for examining, questioning, and challenging the boundaries between what is private and what is public, something she has explored over the past two decades in sculptures, videos, performances, and vocal pieces. In her artist’s book, Woman and Fiction, she references two lectures by Virginia Woolf that later merged into the famous novel A Room of One’s Own, first published by the author’s publishing house (London: The Hogarth Press, 1929). Widely considered a seminal feminist text, the essay, a cross between fiction and non-fiction, is set at Oxbridge University, in which a narrator examines whether women are capable of creation and whether they, in fact, have the freedom to create works of the caliber of William Shakespeare.