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Orlan es el seudónimo de Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte, artista francesa que ha sido autora de provocadores performances alrededor del mundo. El telón donde desarrolla su arte es su propio cuerpo, el que ha sido manipulado y transformado en incontables ocasiones. El fin último de sus creaciones es cuestionar el ideal de belleza establecido en Occidente.
Orlan
“Soy un hombre y una mujer”, aseguró la francesa en 1971. Su estilo se define como “arte carnal”, y ha sido expuesto en múltiples performances. En 1990 la artista transmitió en vivo diversas cirugías plásticas que trataron de asimilarla lo más posible a una musa que agrupara en un solo rostro las virtudes estéticas de la Venus de Botticelli, la Mona Lisa, Diana y Europa. A través de los años, la artista ha creado un discurso que se opone a la cosificación de la mujer como un objeto de placer masculino.
{:}{:en}Orlan is the pseudonym for Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte, French artist which has been the author of provocative performances around the world. Her own body is the stage where she produces her art, which has been manipulated and transformed in countless opportunities. The main goal of her creations is to question the beauty’s ideal established by the Western world.Orlan
“I am a man and a woman”, the French artist expressed in 1971. Her style is defined as “carnal art” and has been exposed in multiple platforms. In 1990 the artist broadcasted different plastic surgeries that tried to resembled as much as possible to a muse that gathered in one face all the aesthetic virtues of the Venus of Botticelli, the Mona Lisa, the princess Diana, and Europe. Through the years, the artist has created a speech that contraposes the conception of treating women as an object for the masculine pleasure.
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