ORLAN is one of the most important French artists internationally recognized.
She is not tied to any one material, technology, or artistic practice. She uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, 3D, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics (she has created a robot in her own image 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. ORLAN created the magazine Art-Accès Revue, on minitel, and founded and organized the International Symposium of Performance and Video in Lyon. ORLAN constantly and radically changes the data, deregulating conventions and ready-made thinking. She opposes natural, social, and political determinism, all forms of domination, male supremacy, religion, cultural segregation, and racism. Always mixed with humor, sometimes parody and even the grotesque, her work questions social phenomena and challenges pre-established codes.
