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Isabelle Frances McGuire (she/her)

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Isabelle Frances McGuire’s installation draws on mythic scenes in American history, from the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, to Abraham Lincoln’s birth near Hodgenville, Kentucky. The three witches’ bodies are made using open-source medical 3D CT scans of human bodies. Although this type of scan offers high-fidelity internal images, it leaves the outward appearance of the body incomplete. Two Salem villagers hover nearby, their bodies built from different character models drawn from the video game Doom.

La instalación de Isabelle Frances McGuire parte de escenas míticas de la historia de Estados Unidos, desde los juicios a las brujas en Salem, Massachusetts, hasta el nacimiento de Abraham Lincoln cerca de Hodgenville, Kentucky. Los cuerpos de las tres brujas fueron creados utilizando tomografías computarizadas 3D de cuerpos humanos realizadas con código abierto. Aunque este tipo de estudio ofrece imágenes internas de alta fidelidad, deja incompleta la apariencia exterior del cuerpo. Dos aldeanos de Salem merodean cerca, sus cuerpos construidos a partir de diferentes modelos de personajes extraídos del videojuego Doom.

Satan in America and Other Invisible Evils: Experiments in Public Sculpture (Witches 1–3), 2026

Three suspended mannequins in a gallery: a paint-covered pale figure flanked by two hooded black figures.
Three suspended mannequins in a gallery: a paint-covered pale figure flanked by two hooded black figures.
Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2026 (Whitney Museum of American Art, March 8–August 2026). Photograph by Darian DiCanno/BFA.com. © BFA 2026

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