Orlan

· Occupation: Actor
· Active: 2000s
· Major Genres: Culture & Society, Visual Arts
· Career Highlights: Orlan - Carnal Art
· First Major Screen Credit: Orlan - Carnal Art (2003)
Biography
Orlan is the radical French artist responsible for the Carnal Art movement, which seeks to open the debate about surgical body modification in an advanced consumer capitalist society obsessed with unattainable beauty standards. Since her first piece, entitled Operation, Orlan has been using her own body as a medium by undergoing a series of plastic surgeries staged as performance art. Her ongoing evolution is aimed at transforming her body based on classical beauty ideals from the history of Western art, along with images created from her own imagination and software. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide






Adnan:

I've started off with looking at the works of Orlan to gain visual references about the human anatomy which could possibly help me with my POS UNIT. Shapes and forms of the human body could inform my ideas and inspiration. This will obviously have some reflection on cosmetics as the body links to it. Therefore i find my research relevant.