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ORLAN

Six Decades

Catherine Millet author Camille Morineau author Elisabeth Bronfen author Patricia Allmer author Donatien Grau author Roxana Marcoci author Sophie Duplaix author Gabriele Schor editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Hatje Cantz

Published:11th May '23

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The Art of Transformation

Using her own body as raw material for her artistic practice, French artist ORLAN deconstructs the traditional iconography of the feminine. In the 1990s, ORLAN caused a sensation with surgical operations performed on her body, but it was as early as 1964, at the age of 17, that she gave birth to her artistic self. Since then, she has continuously recreated herself and keenly explored the concept of identity. In her “carnal art,” the body becomes both subject and object. This publication traverses the six decades of ORLAN’s oeuvre, revisiting her early performances in particular. One of her most recent creations is the ORLAN-OÏDE robot, and thanks to an augmented reality app, ORLAN avatars come to life and emerge from this richly illustrated volume. The political status of the body is made evident through all of her works: in 1989 she transformed Gustave Courbet’s famous painting L’origine du monde into L’origine de la guerre by replacing the vulva with the phallus. The statement has not lost any of its topicality.

ISBN: 9783775754323

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1720g

304 pages