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The French artist Orlan, her actual name is unknown, is making the
ultimate sacrifice for art, her own body is her canvas. She has
designed the perfect woman on her computer by using the worlds most
famous women portraits, like the chin of Botticelli's Venus and the
forehead of da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Through multiple operations, her
atelier is the operating room, she is trying to really become the
ultimate female she has designed.
A comment on our body culture
The art of Orlan can be seen as a comment on the body culture in our
modern world, we admire the perfect body and are searching for the
eternal youth. Our body culture is not criticized by Orlan, she is just
showing us how narcisstic we actually are becoming. Is that a bad
thing? That yours to decide, but looking at the images of her surgery
performances I must say I get really frightened.
The operations themselves are filmed on camera. The surgeons are
wearing special outfits designed by famous designers, like Paco Rabanne
and Issey Miyake. While she is undergoing her operations, there is
music, dance and poetry.
Her own body is Art
In the art world they are kind of used to the idea that artists call
themselves, or their actions, the artwork. Think of all the
performances and happenings we had in the seventies, but this is
something different. Orlon is actually considering her own body as art,
and even brings her skin, the parts that are not used in the
reconstruction, on the art market.
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