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No Baby No
2:57 min., Video. Produced and directed by ORLAN.
J’ai Faim, J’ai Soif, et Ça Pourrait Être Pire
3:11 min. Video. Produced and directed by ORLAN.
Petition contre la Mort
2:32 min. Video. Produced and directed by ORLAN.
Excerpt from “Flayed liberty and two ORLAN bodies”
28:32 min. 3D Video. Produced and directed by ORLAN.
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November 23, 2022
Conversation with Nira Itzhaki in Magazine Portfolio, about ORLAN’s solo exhibition, Ira Eduardovna at LOOP art fair, and SANDBOX
Read the full article Here (In Hebrew) For ORLAN’s solo exhibition, Press HERE To see Ira Eduardovna’s work, ‘The Iron Road’, shown at Loop Barcelona Art Fair, Press HERE To see Chelouche </sandbox>, Press HERE ...
Biography
ORLAN (name in all caps as per the artist’s request) is an innovative conceptual artist. She is active since the seventies and gained the reputation of a controversial and provocative artist-celebrity. She reached fame after publishing a series of performance works broadcasting worldwide plastic surgeries she underwent. During those surgeries she had cheekbone implants inserted into her forehead, to challenge established beauty ideals.
Orlan is using her body and face as a new artistic medium, structuring and restructuring her image till it is formed into a hybrid artwork. She works with traditional mediums as well as contemporary technologies such as augmented reality, AI, and robotics. She uses medicinal techniques such as plastic surgery and biotechnology to transform her image while exploring social phenomena such as identity search and the perception of beauty.
ORLAN’s artworks challenge social constructs, question social phenomena, and deregulate conventions. She opposes natural, social, and political determinism, all forms of domination, male supremacy, religion, cultural segregation, and racism, while using humor, parody, and even the grotesque.
Curriculum Vitae
ORLAN is one of the most important French artists internationally recognized.
She is not tied to any one material, technology or artistic practice. She uses sculpture, photography,
performance, video, 3D, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and robotics (she has
created a robot in her own image that speaks with her voice) as well as scientific and medical techniques such as surgery and biotechnology… to question the social phenomena of our time.
ORLAN created the magazine Art-Accès Revue on minitel
ORLAN founded and organised the International Symposium of Performance and Video in
Lyon.
ORLAN constantly and radically changes the data, deregulating conventions and ready-made thinking.
She opposes natural, social and political determinism, all forms of domination, male supremacy, religion, cultural segregation, racism… Always mixed with humour, sometimes parody or even grotesque, her work questions social phenomena and challenges pre-established codes.
1976-1977
she created the « Baiser de l’artiste »
2003
ORLAN was made a Knight of the Order of
Arts and Letters by the Minister of Culture Jean Jacques Aillagon.
2010
she was honoured with the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite by the Minister
of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand.
2015
ORLAN had the honour of being invited to a residency at the Getty Research Institute in Los
Angeles, USA, as a researcher and artist.
2016
ORLAN was awarded the E-reputation prize, designating the most observed and commented on
artist on the web.
2017
ORLAN was awarded the Female Excellence Award for all her work as an artist by the Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2018
ORLAN received the 100 Heroines Award by The Royal Photographic Society.
2019
ORLAN is honoured with the special Woman of the Year Award, given by Prince Albert II of Monaco
and she is appointed Professor Emeritus of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
2019
ORLAN is awarded the Golden Panda Photography Awards by the Chengou Award Image
Museum
2020
ORLAN is honoured with the medal of the National Order of the Legion of Honour at the rank of
Chevalière by Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin.
2021
ORLAN writes her autobiography “ORLAN, STRIP-TEASE: TOUT SUR MA VIE, TOUT SUR MON
ART” published by Gallimard.
2021
ORLAN received the François Morellet Prize for this autobiography.
2022
ORLAN exhibits at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art des Abattoirs in Toulouse to
present her Manifeste ORLAN, Corps et Sculptures.
2022
ORLAN presents at the Picasso Museum in Paris, Les femmes qui pleurent sont en colère.
