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A book lies on its back with the front cover, spine and bottom edge visible. The cover of the book is a speckled-fawn print and the title is printed in white-block letters in a single, center-justified column.

Client

Jeffrey Deitch

Year

2023

Location

Los Angeles, CA

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Isabelle Albuquerque
Orgy for Ten People in One Body

This volume documents a new series of sculptures by Los Angeles–based artist Isabelle Aluquerque (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, mythology and posthumanist and feminist theories.

Each chapter of Orgy for Ten People in One Body corresponds to one of the 10 sculptures with a palimpsest of reference images, process photos and installation views. The publication includes two conversations with Albuquerque, with Arthur Jafa and with Miranda July.

Published by Pacific, Jeffrey Deitch and Nicodim, Hardcover, 9½ × 11¾ inches, 440 pages, Edition of 1,000

Open book with full-bleed centerfold installation shot. The room has a concrete floor and white walls. There are seven sculptures of the manipulated human body placed throughout the space.
An open book on a grey background. A full-bleed, centerfold image of a sculpture takes up both pages. The sculpture is a greenish-metal casting of the human form riding a broom.
An open book on a grey background. The left page features a photograph of The Wicked Witch of The West from the original Wizard of Oz film. The right page juxtaposes a metal bust of a woman, turned green with age, from the Hellenistic period.
An open book on a grey background. The left page features a sculpture of a human body positioned on top of a shipping crate. The body has its legs raised in the air and holds a candle at its genitals. The right page features a painting by Marlene Dumas titled 'Candle Burning' in which a figure lays on its back, legs in the air.
An open book with a full-bleed centerfold image of a sculpture of a human body laying on top of a slab of dark wood. The body is cast in yellow-wax. Its back faces away from the viewer and its only feature is a crop of short black hair.
Open book with a photo of a baby monkey holding a robot on each page. On the left page the photo is centered amidst a white background. The image on the right page is full-bleed.
Open book with left page showing a full-bleed image of a California wild-fire. The right page shows a bundle of melted wax.
Open book with a full-bleed centerfold detail image of a bronze sculpture. The subject of the sculpture is nearly abstracted though it appears to be a cast of a woman's body. The mouthpiece of a saxophone enters the sculpture at its genitals.
Open book with full-bleed centerfold image of a sculpture of a headless woman. It lays on top of a white cushion, facing away from the viewer. Instead of skin the sculpture is covered in a speckled-fawn's coat of fur. Instead of feet, the sculpture has hooves.
Open book with two photographs of the same sculpture on either page. The left page is a full shot which shows a fur-covered headless human body turning across a grand piano. The right page reveals the human figure to have claws for fingernails.
Open book with an image and text on each page.
Eight sculptures of the manipulated human body are positioned throughout a concrete-floored, and white-walled room.

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