Carnal art

Orlan is a performance artist. She works on the status of the body in contemporary society and programs her own mutation by modifying her body and her image. Thanks to artistic and technological media, she uses cosmetic surgery and digital images in new ways.

She makes use of video, digital photography, and surgery. Her body has become the "development and production site" for her artistic operations, inspired by baroque, Greco-Latin, and Pre-Columbian iconography.

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"I have the skin of an angel but I am a jackal.the skin of a crocodile but I am a poodle, the skin of a black person but I am white, the skin of a woman but I am a man; I never have the skin of what I am.There is no exception to the rule because I am never what I have... "

-Eugenie Lemoine-
Luccioni The Dress
Psychoanalitic Essay on the Clothing-