Las Bordadoras de Isla Negra (English: The Embroiderers of Isla Negra) were a women's sewing group from the coastal town of Isla Negra, Chile. The group achieved worldwide recognition in the late-1960s and early-1970s for embroidered tapestries that depicted scenes from the women's personal experience, everyday life, and local and national histories.[1][2][page range too broad] The group was led by Leonor Sobrino de Vera, an artist and prominent resident of Isla Negra.[3] The naïve art pieces produced by the Bordadoras were well-received locally, nationally, and internationally. In the years following two successful exhibits in Chile, the women's tapestries would be exhibited at museums and galleries around the world, including the Gallerie du Passeur in Paris and the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London.[4] The Bordadoras de Isla Negra are said to have influenced the more well-known Chilean arpillerista groups of the 1970s (who were known for their arpilleras), though there is some disagreement as to the validity of such claims.[5][6]
The group was still active as of 2016.[6]
References
edit- ^ Robinson, Ruth (19 October 1989). "Tapestries Depict Life in Chile". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- ^ Manier, Martha (2019). Sewing Their Stories, Telling Their Lives: Embroidered Narratives from Chile to the World Stage (1969-2016). Arcata, California: Humboldt State University Press. pp. 14–82. ISBN 978-1947112148.
- ^ Manier, Martha (2019). Sewing Their Stories, Telling Their Lives: Embroidered Narratives from Chile to the World Stage (1969-2016). Arcata, California: Humboldt State University Press. pp. 15–17. ISBN 978-1947112148.
- ^ Manier, Martha (2019). Sewing Their Stories, Telling Their Lives: Embroidered Narratives from Chile to the World Stage (1969-2016). Arcata, California: Humboldt State University Press. pp. 20–21. ISBN 978-1947112148.
- ^ Adams, Jacqueline (2018). "What is Solidarity Art?". In Mor, Jessica; del Carmen Suesun Pozas, Maria (eds.). The Art of Solidarity: Visual and Performative Politics in Cold War Latin America. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1477316405. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- ^ a b Manier, Martha (2019). Sewing Their Stories, Telling Their Lives: Embroidered Narratives from Chile to the World Stage (1969-2016). Arcata, California: Humboldt State University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-1947112148.