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STATEMENT OF WORK
Responding to the historical textile, Mia Weiner creates intimate declarations that explore identity, gender, and the psychology of human relationships.
In her most recent series of tapestries, Weiner engages in histories of portraiture, using her own body in each weaving along with the models that she choreographs. The photographs are then digitally manipulated before being handwoven - body parts are removed, coded objects added, color and contrast shifted. Visibility, time, and place are complicated and confused. As the photograph is mediated through cloth, each pixel becomes a crossing of tensioned threads, and the relationship between object and image begins to equalize.
Mia's work is about connection, both between bodies and cloth as a shared experience.