Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On December 16th, 2023, The MOCA Store hosted an exciting afternoon celebrating Los Angeles–based artist Isabelle Albuquerque’s first monograph, Orgy for Ten People in One Body (Pacific, Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim, 2023). The event featured a conversation between Albuquerque and book contributors Miranda July and Arthur Jafa, moderated by Ariana Reines, followed by an audience Q + A.
Orgy for Ten People in One Body documents a new series of sculptures by the artist, presented as a complete set of ten for the first time in an exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch, New York, in 2022–23. Each chapter of Orgy for Ten People in One Body corresponds to one of the ten sculptures. Edited and designed by Jon Ray, the book features reference images, process photos, and installation views, along with two conversations between Albuquerque and fellow artists Jafa and July.
These expressive and erotic works—rendered in materials ranging from fur, bronze and walnut to resin and rubber (with found objects such as a candle or a saxophone)—are based on the artist’s own body. Combining intimate memories with history and mythology, as well as post-humanist and feminist theory, Albuquerque’s sculptures become a form of self-portraiture.
Videographer: Anna Tse (Instagram: @tse_cheese)
On December 16th, 2023, The MOCA Store hosted an exciting afternoon celebrating Los Angeles–based artist Isabelle Albuquerque’s first monograph, Orgy for Ten People in One Body (Pacific, Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim, 2023). The event featured a conversation between Albuquerque and book contributors Miranda July and Arthur Jafa, moderated by Ariana Reines, followed by an audience Q + A.
Orgy for Ten People in One Body documents a new series of sculptures by the artist, presented as a complete set of ten for the first time in an exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch, New York, in 2022–23. Each chapter of Orgy for Ten People in One Body corresponds to one of the ten sculptures. Edited and designed by Jon Ray, the book features reference images, process photos, and installation views, along with two conversations between Albuquerque and fellow artists Jafa and July.
These expressive and erotic works—rendered in materials ranging from fur, bronze and walnut to resin and rubber (with found objects such as a candle or a saxophone)—are based on the artist’s own body. Combining intimate memories with history and mythology, as well as post-humanist and feminist theory, Albuquerque’s sculptures become a form of self-portraiture.
Videographer: Anna Tse (Instagram: @tse_cheese)
