Margo Wolowiec

Through her inimitable artistic practice, Margo Wolowiec reflects upon and responds to the Information Age. At the root of her work is an impulse to slow down the rapid movement of the digital era, and she conveys this by translanting social media images into analog mediums, particularly textiles. Wolowiec therefore hand stitches text fragments culled from the internet, and for a striking series of large-format works, Wolowiec adapted a time-intensive process allowing her to adhere Instagram photos to fiber, which can then be hand woven into a vivid yet distorted re-creations of the original photos in fabric. 

Of her work, Wolowiec explains, “I am concerned with the slippages that occur when information is translated from one source to another, where meaning shifts and migrates, and data becomes malleable. Through textile processes and material concerns, my work aims to question the intangibilities of our daily lives through embodied knowledge, while drawing upon a wide range of cross-disciplinary discourse ranging from architecture to sociological studies of memory and nostalgia.” 

Since 2007, Wolowiec has exhibited her work at galleries and institutions throughout the United States.