Pacific Northwest College of Art, in partnership with lumber room, is proud to welcome Isabelle Albuquerque for an artist talk on her work and practice.
About Isabelle Albuquerque
Isabelle Albuquerque’s psychologically charged work mines structures of power, desire, and transmutation through the body. She employs both human and robotic processes and uses materials such as cast bronze, hair, rubber and melting wax to encode precise moments or performances in time. The resulting works become a cross-temporal conversation that centers the experiences of women and subverts art historical constructs through new modes of multiplicity and agency.
In her most recent series Orgy For Ten People In One Body, Albuquerque translates her own body through varied forms and materials to create ten headless human scaled figures in multivalent states of embodiment, ecstasy and transformation. And her current series Alien Spring moves from the her own body into cross species biophilic hybrid forms born out of environmental catastrophe and mutated into new life.
Albuquerque lives and works in Los Angeles. She is a founding member of the performance duo Hecuba, and has performed at SFMOMA, the Walker Art Center, and the Hammer Museum. Recent sculptural exhibitions include Post Human, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, Orgy for 10 People in One Body, Jeffrey Deitch, New York; BodyLand, Max Hetzler, Berlin; and Sextet, Nicodim, Los Angeles. Albuquerque’s work has appeared in numerous publications including Flash Art, Artforum and The New York Times. Her latest book Orgy for Ten People in One Body (Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim, Pacific) is a 450 page monograph about the series that includes conversations with the artists Miranda July and Arthur Jafa.
Free & Open to the Public!
Pacific Northwest College of Art
In the first-floor Mediatheque
511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209
