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.
Orlan, a multimedia
artist, 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.
Her
work chokes the classical concepts of identity and the taboos around
the myths of femininity, anxiety at opening up one's body, and the
limits of art in the complexity of the philosophical, religious,
and psychoanalytical models.
