SUTURE / HYBRIDISATION / RECYCLING
Fold sculptures, clothes and costumes incarnated in the work of ORLAN with the collaboration of DAVIDELFIN
13th June - 28th September 2008
ORLAN (Saint-Etienne, France, 1947) is internationally renowned for her interdisciplinary practice cutting across photography, performance, video, sculpture, etc. Her work enacts the most substantial physical and identitarian metamorphosis in the history of art. Ever since 1977, when she began to explore the "status" of the female body within art history and society, ORLAN has been questioning traditional concepts of beauty and identity. In 1990-93, when the artist introduced a video camera in the first of her many operations, ORLAN redesigned her body in several plastic surgery interventions in which the surgical staff were dressed in clothes designed especially for the occasion by Paco Rabanne, Issey Miyake, Charlotte, Galdeberg, Franck, Sorbier Lan Vu…etc. Her practice involved a denunciation against the pressures exerted by the "correct" physical archetypes as well as a reflection on the mutating body and the cultural construction of identity, embodying a singula r way of feminist protest and a questioning of the female body subjected to the pressures of social and cultural canons.
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