Aluquerque's expressive sculptural self-portraits are freighted with eroticism, mythology and posthumanism This volume documents a new series of sculptures by Los Angeles–based artist Isabelle Albuquerque (born 1981), presented as a complete set of 10 for the first time in an exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch in 2022–23. These works, an expressive and erotic form of self-portraiture based on the artist’s own body, rendered in materials ranging from fur, bronze and walnut to resin and rubber (with found materials such as a candle or a saxophone), combine intimate memories with history,...
Aluquerque's expressive sculptural self-portraits are freighted with eroticism, mythology and posthumanism This volume documents a new series of scul...