I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and religious pressures, which prints them in the flesh and in particular in women's flesh. — Orlan Copy Share Image
My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society. — Orlan Copy Share Image
Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity… — Orlan Copy Share Image
Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of… — Orlan Copy Share Image
A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get… — Orlan Copy Share Image
Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of… — Orlan Copy Share Image
I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and religious pressures,… — Orlan Copy Share Image
I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs. — Orlan Copy Share Image
My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society. — Orlan Copy Share Image
I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une… — Orlan Copy Share Image
Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear younger or… — Orlan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who do crazy things without necessarily being crazy, for example crossing the Atlantic solo. Some crazy things which… — Orlan Copy Share Image
