I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs. — Orlan Art 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… — Orlan Art 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… — Orlan Achieve 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… — Orlan Alienation 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… — Orlan Art Copy Share Image
Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear… — Orlan Aesthetic 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… — Orlan Body 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… — Orlan Developing 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… — Orlan Certain 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… — Orlan Conform Copy Share Image
Only a few kinds of images force you to shut your eyes: death, suffering, the opening of the body, some aspects of… — Orlan Aspect Copy Share Image
