MIT’s List Visual Arts Center presents the first US solo exhibition of Hana Miletić, Soft Services. From the exhibition catalog:
Since 2015, Hana Miletić has worked almost exclusively with hand produced textiles, developing several ongoing bodies of work that subtly relate forms of historically undervalued labor, like the “women’s work” of weaving, to other narratives of social and economic struggle.
The exhibition is scheduled to run from April 4 to August 4, 2024, at the Reference Gallery.
Recommended reading list via the exhibition catalog:
- Bryan-Wilson, Julia. Fray: Art and Textile Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Cooke, Lynne, ed. Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
- Livingstone, Joan, and John Ploof. The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.
- Plant, Sadie. Zeroes and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture. London: Fourth Estate, 1997.
- Praznik, Katja. Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Header: Hana Miletić, Materials, 2021–22. Pale blue repurposed mercerized cotton, recycled nylon, repurposed plastic, rose pink organic raw wool, variegated blue organic silk, white gauze yarn, 7 1/2 × 8 1/4 × 1 3/16 in. (19 × 21 × 2.4 cm). Courtesy the artist and The Approach, London. Photo: GRAYSC
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