In her practice Hana Miletić complicates the relationship between representation and reproduction, by making linkages between photography and weaving. The artist models her woven textiles after photographs that she takes which document acts of ‘care and repair’ in public space. She uses the weaving process – which requires considerable time and dedication – as a way to counteract certain economic and social conditions at work, such as acceleration, standardisation and transparency.
Inspired by the long tradition of handwork in her family, Miletić expands the genealogy of fibre and fabric producers from her female kin to animals and bacteria (e.g. spiders, silk larvae and raw sheep wool), along with computers (e.g. the automated Jacquard loom and recycled plastics). The artist picks up the threads of these different weavers and explores their weaving systems in order to understand what constitutes our webs of knowledge and care, and to be able to contribute to these transfers.
Hana Miletić (b. 1982, Zagreb, Croatia) lives and works in Brussels.