ORLAN Author

ORLAN is a French contemporary artist whose provocative work investigates the body, identity, beauty, gender, technology, and the cultural construction of appearance. Working across performance, photography, sculpture, digital media, biotechnology, and other forms, she became internationally known for using her own body as both artistic material and site of debate. Her radical interrogation of conventional ideals of beauty and identity has made her an important figure in performance, body, feminist, and contemporary art.