Homes
Harley Weir
Taken immediately before and during the clearing of this provisional settlement, Weir’s images highlight both the humanity and ingenuity of those living there - emphasising the domestic and familiar against a backdrop of displacement.
In Homes, Weir offers a different insight, showing us the personal spaces of the camp created in the face of oppression and indifference from those most able to provide assistance. In doing so she intimates the wider human story of the resilience and misery of the refugee experience.
Homes was first published as a photo book in 2016 by Loose Joints. The books shown as part of this exhibition are a reprint of this publication made especially for the Biennial. All proceeds from sales will be donated to La Cimade, a French charity committed to protecting and defending the human rights of refugees and migrants.
About The Artist
British photographer Harley Weir is known for creating intimate images in both her personal work and her editorial and fashion commissions.
Harley Weir graduated in 2010 from Central Saint Martins College, London, with a degree in Fine Arts, where she largely taught herself photography and experimented with film and collage. Her first solo exhibition was Boundaries at Foam, Amsterdam (2016-17). Also in 2017 she exhibited work at The Belly and the Members, curated by Antonia Marsh at Cob Gallery, London.
Besides this work, she has created images for AnOther Magazine, i-D Magazine, Dazed & Confused and shot photographic campaigns and lookbooks for renowned fashion brands such as Maison Martin Margiela and Calvin Klein, Balenciaga, Céline, Stella McCartney and Jacquemus.
She has published three books: Homes with Loose Joints (2017), Paintings with Loose Joints (2017) and most recently, Function with Baron (2018). Harley Weir lives and works in London.
