ORLAN formerly (Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte) was born in Saint-Étienne, Loire in France on May 30, 1947. She started her career in the 60s where was she a major revolutionary activist during the early Feminist Movement in Paris. ORLAN changed her name in 1971 to reinvent herself. Her focus is to challenge society’s definition and objectification of beauty standards for women in which is what most of her art is comprised of. ORLAN does not abide by the normality of the world and she is dead set against any form of discrimination, religion, racism etc. She currently spends her time between Los Angeles, France, and New York.
ORLAN is mostly associated with the early Feminist Movement era(1960s) where women frustrated about the discrimination they dealt with in the work place and started to reject the obscurity by men especially biological and cultural wise. She uses a lot of forms of mixed media such as photography, performance, video, sculptures just to name a few. Her focus is her body in which she uses as …show more content…
ORLAN’s most famous artwork would be The Reincarnation of Saint ORLAN, in which she undergoes multiple plastic surgeries to resemble herself as classic works of art and sculptures. The surgeries were filmed and shown in quite a few galleries around the world. She started the piece in 1990 and it is part of her Carnal Art platform which her mission is to portray the idea of the beauty of women by acquiring certain features painted by male artist such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Botticelli's Venus, Jean-Léon Gérôme's Psyche, and Diana 16th-century French School of Fontainebleu painting. She stated that she chose those pieces because of their representation not particular there looks and will continue to until she has certain features from each
ORLAN is mostly associated with the early Feminist Movement era(1960s) where women frustrated about the discrimination they dealt with in the work place and started to reject the obscurity by men especially biological and cultural wise. She uses a lot of forms of mixed media such as photography, performance, video, sculptures just to name a few. Her focus is her body in which she uses as …show more content…
ORLAN’s most famous artwork would be The Reincarnation of Saint ORLAN, in which she undergoes multiple plastic surgeries to resemble herself as classic works of art and sculptures. The surgeries were filmed and shown in quite a few galleries around the world. She started the piece in 1990 and it is part of her Carnal Art platform which her mission is to portray the idea of the beauty of women by acquiring certain features painted by male artist such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Botticelli's Venus, Jean-Léon Gérôme's Psyche, and Diana 16th-century French School of Fontainebleu painting. She stated that she chose those pieces because of their representation not particular there looks and will continue to until she has certain features from each