ORLAN is one of the most famous french
artist internationally known. She was
born in Saint-Étienne, France. She lives
and works between Paris, Los Angeles
and New York. She creates sculptures,
photographs, performances, videos, and
videogames, augmented reality, using
scientific and medical technics like surgery
and biogenetic. Those are only mediums
for her, the idea prevails and the materiality
pursues. ORLAN makes her own body the
medium, the raw material, and the visual
support of her work. It takes place as the
‘public debate’. She is a major figure of the
body art and of ‘carnal art’ as she used
to define it in her 1989 manifesto. Her
commitment and her liberty are an integral
part of her work. She defends innovative,
interrogative and subversive positions,
in her entire artwork. ORLAN changes
constantly and radically the datas, which
disrupt conventions, and ‘ready-made
thinking’. She is opposed to the natural
determinism, social and politic and to
all domination forms, male supremacy,
religion, cultural segregation and racism,
etc. Always mixed with humor, often-on
parody or even grotesque, her provocative
artworks can shock because she shakes
up the pre-established codes. ORLAN won
the E-reputation award, designating the
most observed and followed artist on the
Web.
