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ORLAN
Sign in to saveOrlan (stylized as ORLAN) is a French multi-media artist who uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics as well as scientific and medical techniques such as surgery and biotechnology to question modern social phenomena. She has said that her art is not body art, but 'carnal art,' which lacks the suffering aspect of body art.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1882
- Died
- 1970
- Works
- 260
Top works
- La semaine secrète de Vénus
- Le bataillon de la mauvaise chance
- Sous la lumière froide
- Marguerite de la nuit
- Le mal de Marie
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Film & TV
Saint-Étienne, Loire, France
ORLAN is a French contemporary artist best known for her work with plastic surgery in the early to mid-1990s. ORLAN is known as a pioneer of carnal art, a form of self-portraiture that utilizes body modification to distort one's appearance.
Known for
- Slow, une histoire d'amour — Self2024
- Orlan, carnal art — self2001
- Synthetic Pleasures — Self1995
- Omniprésence — self1994
- Eurotrash1993
- Successful Operation — self1992
- Cinématon XV — N°1491981
- Don Juan1980
- Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83) — Orlan
- Mise en scène pour un grand fiat — Sainte Orlan
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- France
- Active from
- 1947
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 407
- Total plays
- 2,693
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Orlan">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Key facts
- Artist.name
- Orlan
- Artist.image
- ORLAN en 2021.jpg
- Artist.alt
- ORLAN (2021)
- Artist.caption
- Orlan in 2021
- Artist.birth_place
- Saint-Étienne, France
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mireille
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Saint-Étienne
- Languages spoken
- French
- Genre
- portrait
- Movement
- feminist art
- Official website
- orlan.eu
- Image
- ORLAN en 2021.jpg
- Work location
- Los Angeles
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- Commons category
- Orlan (artist)
- has works in the collection
- Musée National d'Art Moderne
- pseudonym
- Orlan
- date of birth
- 1947-05-30
- birth name
- Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte
- described at URL
- v2.nl/people/orlan
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Biography
- ''The Reincarnation of Sainte-ORLAN''
- In the 2000s
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- References
- External links
Orlan (stylized as ORLAN) is a French multi-media artist who uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics as well as scientific and medical techniques such as surgery and biotechnology to question modern social phenomena. She has said that her art is not body art, but 'carnal art,' which lacks the suffering aspect of body art.
==Biography== Since the 1960s and 70s, Orlan has challenged how the body is shaped by political, religious, and social norms, often through feminist art. Her work uses her own body to explore identity, frequently through photography.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ORLAN” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.