Sculptor Isabelle Albuquerque: Ten People, Two Cities, One Body

In an arresting series of 10 nearly life-size sculptures, Isabelle Albuquerque uses her own body as a prototype, manifesting versions of herself across multiple forms and materials—generating headless female figures in wood, bronze, marble, wax, and fur, arranged on plinths, pedestals, and plush pads, and provocatively posed with props like candles, a well-placed saxophone, and even a baby grand. On view at Jeffrey Deitch, Albuquerque’s Orgy For Ten People In One Body represents the completed...