In A space for healing, Rummana Hussain has created a room that is intended to evoke the atmosphere of a Sufi shrine while also drawing in elements that are associated with a hospital room. Both these places, the shrine and the hospital, are spaces of healing. As the artist has said:

'The hospital provides physical healing, the shrine spiritual healing, At the same time the hospital is also a space where one can spiritually prepare to face the afterlife, and the shrine is a space for questioning life itself.'

In this work Hussain creates a space that considers ideas of redemption and refuge by bringing together the aspects of the physical and the mystical worlds. A space for healing was created for the 'Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' at Queensland Art Gallery in 1999 during a time when the violence between the Hindu and Muslim populations in India was heightened. It was also the last art work made by the artist before she succumbed to cancer.