POW

Las Hermanas Iglesias and Bodhild Iglesias
"POW", 2022
Acrylic, wool, thread, upholstery tacks
Courtesy of the artists.

Las Hermanas Iglesias is the collaborative team of Lisa & Janelle Iglesias, sisters born to Dominican and Norwegian immigrants in Queens, NY. Our identities and moniker are woven within the contexts of feminism, collectivity, and familial relationships. For the past fifteen years, we've maintained our transmedia, genre-blurring collaboration alongside our individual practices rooted in sculpture and drawing. We collaborate while living in different cities, through formal and informal residencies and extended on-site collaborative installations. Our practice has evolved to include a number of team efforts and variations such as work with our mother, Bodhild. One of seven children growing up on a dairy farm in a remote mountain village, Bodhild learned how to knit when she was four years old, and she continues to pass on textile traditions to her children. In response to current and traumatic events including legislative restrictions on reproductive justice, we are inspired by and incorporate diagrammatic signifiers for matrescence and family planning into our textile designs. In these new knit paintings, we contribute a variety of techniques in the process of constructing the artworks and guide the creation through collective decision making.