ORLAN is one of the most internationally recognised French artists. She is not bound to a single material, technology or artistic practice.
ORLAN is one of the most internationally recognised French artists. She is not bound to a single material, technology or artistic practice. She works with sculpture, photography, performance, video, 3D, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and robotics (she has created a robot in her own likeness 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) View of the exhibition Les femmes qui pleurent sont en colère, ORLAN Nov 2021, Photo © François Fernandez. LES FEMMES QUI PLEURENT SONT EN COLÈRE BY FEMME AVEC TÊTE(S). « LES FEMMES QUI PLEURENT SONT EN COLÈRE » IS A NEW SERIES OF HYBRID PHOTOGRAPHS THAT I CREATED TO STAGE THE WOMEN IN THE SHADOWS: THE INSPIRERS, THE MODELS, THE MUSES. THEY HAVE INDEED ALWAYS PLAYED A DECISIVE ROLE IN THE REPUTATION OF OUR GREAT MASTERS. I QUESTION THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN THE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC SPHERE AND INTERROGATE THE STATUS OF THE BODY THROUGH ALL THE CULTURAL, TRADITIONAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS PRESSURES THAT IMPRINT THEMSELVES PARTICULARLY ON FEMALE BODIES. I INSERT FRAGMENTS OF MY FACE, INCLUDING MY SCREAMING MOUTH, SO THAT ANGER IS EXPRESSED IN THE WORK THIS NEW SERIES OF HYBRIDISATIONS, BASED ON PICASSO'S PAINTINGS OF DORA MAAR IN TEARS, IS A DESTRUCTION-RECONSTRUCTION AND CREATION OF THE FEMALE FIGURE, WHICH KALEIDOSCOPES THE WORLD IT MINGLES WITH. MY CREATIONS, ALL POLITICAL AND FEMINIST, ARE BASED ON A VISUAL RESEARCH INTO FACES OF HORROR, FEAR AND GRANDEUR. PICASSO OBJECTIFIES DORA MAAR. I RE-READ PICASSO'S WORK TO PUT THE WOMAN-SUBJECT BACK AT THE CENTRE. BETWEEN PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY, TEARS AND ANGER, MY FEMALE FIGURES ARE HYBRIDISED AND DE-ALIENATED IN A PICTORIAL FORM THAT I CREATE LIKE BRUTAL, EXTREMELY FREE AND DISRUPTIVE COLLAGES. Sunday 13 November 2019 ORLAN ORLAN. "Strip-tease. Tout sur ma vie, tout sur mon art", 2021. Edition Gallimard. On the upper floor of the Galerie Eva Vautier, ORLAN REMIX will be screened, a film commissioned from ORLAN by SOS Racisme. She chose to remix a sequence from the film “Clair de femme”, based on the book by Romain Gary, in a moment of the film where Yves Montant waits for Romy Schneider, who does not come. Bar-room jokes are swapped, in which one takes the mickey out of Belgians and Japanese… ORLAN, shaking a cocktail shaker, advises us to hybridise ourselves and ends up making her own cells dance to a paso-doble record, triggered by the chimpanzee so that a pink poodle dances. Extract from the Dictionnaire universel des créatrices © 2013 Des femmes – Antoinette Fouque Hugues Marchal. Emblematic of the interest contemporary artists have taken in performance and in the possibilities of using the body as a medium of creation, ORLAN stands out for her multiple practices. Questioning the representations of art, of gender, of sexuality and of the subject, this artist of international stature has never ceased to put her appearance and…
