Born in 1947, ORLAN is an artist who expresses herself through different media: painting, sculpture, installations, performance, photography, digital images, artificial intelligence, robotics, augmented reality, biotechnologies... She says that her art is not body art, but rather 'carnal art,' which lacks the suffering aspect of body art.
Since the 1960s and the 1970s, ORLAN has questioned the status of the body and the political, religious, social, and traditional pressures that are inscribed in it. Her work denounces the violence done to the body and in particular to women's bodies, and thus engages in a feminist struggle. She makes her body the privileged instrument where our own relationship to otherness is played out. This work of ORLAN on the body is done in particular by the means of photography.
In 1976, for example, she walked the streets wearing a dress on which her naked body was represented. In the same period, in Portugal, she offered photos glued to wood and cut out corresponding to pieces of herself: an arm, a piece of breast, etc.

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