Iman Issa @ Rodeo London

Iman Issa’s series “Proxies, with a Life of their Own,” began with the shape of a head, and every iteration of the work since then has involved the same head, only stretched out, broken open, or cut in half. Issa wanted the original shape to be exactly the same every time, so she drew it first and had it 3-D printed. Then, she would take the heads to a paint studio, where they were covered with acrylic in white or black but never a color. The resulting works exist in the world as sculptures composed of pieces, which you have to puzzle out.