Mia Weiner’s tapestries beckon the viewer into a realm where mythology intertwines with contemporary discourse on gender and femininity, inviting them to question and reimagine the world in which we live. Her research focuses on the way the body has been represented in art history and in particular, how female subjects have often been depicted as objects. How do we shift that gaze, that power dynamic, that narrative?

Beginning with photographs she stages of friends and models (often alongside her own body), Weiner digitally converts the image into matrices of pulsating weave patterns. As she handweaves each work, each pixel becomes a crossing of threads, and the figure begins to appear in the form of tapestry. Mostly monochromatic, the works sometimes make unexpected shifts in color or include the visual markers or glitches of production. These glitches and breaks in image become moments for queerness to seep into the cloth and find a new point of access and intimacy.