On the occasion of Paris Photo, and in the Emerging Artists category, Homecoming presents Mia Weiner.
‘You Will Be My Sun’ by Mia Weiner premieres a series of handwoven tapestries that extend her practice into themes of radical softness, care and connection.
Rooted in the philosophical concept of weaving as both material and metaphor, these works carry memory and tenderness into a world marked by division and speed.
Photography-based compositions are transformed into threads, monochromatic with occasional color shifts or glitches that symbolize moments of intimacy, queerness, and resistance to conformity. These interruptions -like woven code- invite us to be open, offering a live rewriting of the social fabric, a call to attend to the presence of what it means to be human.
Mia Weiner (b. 1991, Chicago, US) is a Los Angeles-based artist who creates handwoven tapestries of intimate scenes on themes of identity, gender, and the psychology of human relationships. Responding to mythology and traditions in portraiture, Weiner’s photography-based compositions put the body center stage, exploring how figurative representation can hold power and agency.
Weiner’s research focuses on how the human figure has been represented and, in particular, how female subjects have often been depicted as objects. “I engage with the history of portraiture, using my body and choreographed models in my compositions. Body parts are removed, objects added, and color and contrast altered, complicating visibility, time, and place. Pixels transform into threads, equalizing the relationship between object and image as the digital becomes tactile. Monochromatic with occasional color shifts or glitches, these breaks represent moments of intimacy or queerness. My work is about connection- between bodies and cloth as a place of shared experience.”
Weiner holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2020) and a BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2013). In 2024, she received the Victoria and Albert Museum Parasol Prize, and her work in the collection of Kunstmuseum The Hague is currently on view as part of the
exhibition I’ll be Your Mirror.
