ORLAN: "Free Flow" Lecture

ORLAN: "Free Flow" Lecture
17 JANUARY 2006
EDA, BROAD ART CENTER

The French Artist Orlan began her highly unconventional career at the age of seventeen, with a series of staged photographs of her own body, which has become her art medium and her primary creative voice. She continued to make her body the center of public and aesthetic debate with works and performances staged in the most prestigious art galleries in France. Orlan’s art has taken a myriad of forms: painting, sculpture, poetry, photography, and video.
She addresses themes of disfiguration and refiguration, virtual and real, beauty and grotesque, as well as sexuality, female identity, and Catholic symbolism. Her current digital photograph work, “Self-Hybridizations” continues to question the social and cultural pressure exerted on the body.