{"id":18494,"date":"2010-07-22T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T12:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orlan.eu\/works\/installation\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T13:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:02:31","slug":"installation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.orlan.eu\/en\/works\/installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Installations"},"content":{"rendered":"

INSTALLATION<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Slow de l’Artiste installation at CENTQUATRE Paris, 2022\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

A few months before the release of her first musical album “Le Slow de L’Artiste”, ORLAN created an immersive art installation at the CENTQUATRE Paris, designed to tease out her future musical project. The album is previewed in this installation, on a loop, all day long. A video projection illustrates each of the songs, accompanied by a karaoke machine allowing the audience to sing along.<\/p>\n

\n

Of course, spectators were invited to dance, to get closer, to rediscover themselves…. ORLAN lines the exhibition room from floor to ceiling with cardboard signs bearing the project slogans “JE SUIS SLOWSEXUEL.LE”, “NOUS SOMMES SLOWSEXUEL.LE.S”, “JE SUIS ARTSEXUEL.LE”, “NOUS SOMMES ARTSEXUEL.LE.S”. These signs were used by ORLAN during her first demonstration “Je Suis Slowsexuel.le”, which appears at the end of her eponymous title “Je Suis Slowsexuel.le”. They have become a ubiquitous iconographic feature of the project. Facet balls and light projections create a sensual, intimate space. ORLAN created two augmented reality avatars in her image, in reference to the album cover. One in a blue wig, the other in a two-tone wig, both in costume with her manifesto dress. Her costume was designed by Be\u00f1at Moreno, and featured a lycra dress and chiffon cape. He created a textile print using the slogans on the signs, all in black and white. With this costume, ORLAN becomes a manifesto, visually embodying her concept. This installation is used by ORLAN for performances, demonstrations and a showcase at the closing. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\n

Following her performance le baiser de l’artiste (the artist’s kiss) at the FIAC in 1977, ORLAN presents le slow de l’artiste (the artist’s slow), her very first “all slow” album! She wants to offer what we’ve missed most since March 17, 2020: human warmth, hugs, body-to-body… she wants to bring bodies closer together after the physical distancing!<\/p>\n

\n

She realized that many of her assistants had never slow-danced before, and decided that she couldn’t go on like this – she had to do something for young people! With this project, she hopes to help people discover and revive this dance as a therapeutic treatment in this still difficult period of reconstruction.<\/p>\n

ORLAN wrote the lyrics for each slow, which she then proposed to musicians to create the melody and sing her texts.  She then inserted her voice into the music, in collaboration with the guest.<\/p>\n

This album brings together the twenty extraordinary slows created by ORLAN in complete osmosis with fantastic artists: Sir Alice, Jean-claude Dreyfus, Terrenoire, Les Tetines Noires, Les Chicks On Speed, Mimosa, Yael Naim, Tentative, Regis Campo, Myope, Blue Carmen, Les Sans Pattes, La Femme, Romain Brau, Charlie Morrow, Demi Mondaine, Charlemagne Palestine, Kat May Et Iury Lech.<\/b><\/p>\n

The vinyl is on sale at FNAC and on all platforms. Several clips have been produced to visually illustrate ORLAN’s message: she made “Je suis slowsexuel.le” with Sir Alice and “Les corps de m\u00e9tiers m’excitent” with Tentative. A book will be published with texts written by the artist. ORLAN  has performed on several occasions with musicians including Demi Mondaine on Culture Box. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholderNew OMICS Buildings<\/strong><\/span><\/em>Institut PASTEUR, artistic intervention, invitation within the framework of<\/strong><\/span> the ORGANOID <\/strong><\/span><\/em>by Fabrice Hyber,<\/strong><\/span> ORLAN PHAGES,<\/strong><\/span><\/em> 2<\/strong><\/span>018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

Following her exhibition Le boeuf sur la langue <\/i>(2010), ORLAN had the pleasure of being invited to take part in the ORGANO\u00cfDE project created by her friend and academician Fabrice Hyber and Olivier Schwartz. This is a database of images created by artists to support Institut Pasteur’s scientific research. <\/p>\n

As part of this project, she had the opportunity to collaborate with researcher Shahragim Tajbakhsh, head and expert of the Stem Cells and Development unit, which ORLAN is passionate about.<\/p>\n

\n

After a long discussion with him, she wanted to work with her own stem cells, and she proposed a project along these lines to the Institut Pasteur, which was refused by the ethics committee because it is forbidden in France to work with these cells. The body and its use are political and social. Our bodies don’t belong to us.<\/p>\n

Finally, the Institut Pasteur, through Fabrice Hyber, invited him to work artistically in their new OMICS building, in the lobby of the Simone Veil and Alexandre Yersin buildings.<\/p>\n

ORLAN has created a complete environment from colorful images of her cells and viruses, as in Le b\u0153uf sur la langue<\/i>, but in a different version. The words included in these colorful harlequinoid images were, for example, “rabies”, “pasteurella pestis”, “vaccine”, or “researcher”, a term that ORLAN greatly appreciates as it underlines the feminization of professional names, whereas Marie Curie, as a woman, suffered greatly from being a researcher among researchers.<\/p>\n

The images were installed in light boxes and on a floor covering, on and under bleachers and on high round tables covered with this print. The final touch is a very large tondo, installed at the top of the white wall opposite the bleachers. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n

 <\/p>\n


\n
\n Sentimental hat,<\/strong>
\n <\/span>
\n<\/em>
\n 20<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\n 14<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

For the exhibition “Chapeaux! Hommage \u00e0 Robert Fillliou” exhibition, curator Raphael Cuir asked several artists, including ORLAN, to create a new work. ORLAN loved the Fluxus artist and his work, and wanted to pay tribute to his Galerie L\u00e9gitime. She asked her friends, most of them personalities from the art world, to take a photo posing in a hat.<\/p>\n

\n

ORLAN transferred them to fairground garland pennants, creating a huge garland with a bowler hat at one end. She then folded the garland, rolling it as tightly as possible to fit as many portraits as possible into the hat. When it was extremely full, she stopped the work. This installation is currently on display in the reception hall of his STUDIO, creating a kind of festive atmosphere as soon as you enter, perpetuating the concept of “permanent celebration” spoken of by Robert Fillliou. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n

Un Boeuf Sur La Langue, La Nuit Blanche, Paris, France,2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

ORLAN creates a light installation for the Nuit Blanche on October 6, 2012 in Paris.<\/p>\n

The artist set the words she projected from a flyboat making the Grenelle-Ivry trip, using a light cannon, onto both sides of the Paris facades. Words in motion, beacon words, verbal spectres gliding over riverside dwellings, offered to night owls for their reflection and reverie.<\/p>\n

\n

The words were taken from his installation Un Boeuf sur la langue<\/i>. ADVENTURE, WITH, COURAGE, WANDERING, GENDER, HYBRIDIZATION, PANIC, SOLITUDE, SURFEMME, TRANSGRESSION. There were several points in the city near the Seine where spectators could see the installation and discuss what these words evoked in them. In a second phase, ORLAN organized with France Culture at the Palais de Tokyo, Fran\u00e7ois Angelier’s program Mauvais genres, where guests were invited by the artist to speak in a scholarly way about the words projected in the city. Guests included Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Cynthia Fleury, Maria Bonnafous-Boucher, Jean de Loisy, Bernard Blist\u00e8ne, Ruwen Ogien, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Jean Baptiste Thoret and Pac\u00f4me Thiellement.<\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\n

“WORDS DEFINED IN DICTIONARIES ARE DEFINED, REREAD AND RECODED ACCORDING TO CONTEXT, POLITICAL EVENTS, CURRENT IDEOLOGIES AND FASHIONS BY THOSE WHO USE THEM, I.E. EVERYONE.<\/p>\n

AND BY EVERYONE WHO PUTS THESE WORDS BACK INTO ANOTHER LANGUAGE THAT HE HYBRIDIZES, REINVENTING WORDS THAT ARE ALSO USED BY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE MISSING.<\/p>\n

\n

WE PROJECT OUR EXPERIENCES AND MEMORIES INTO THESE WORDS.<\/p>\n

IN THESE WORDS, THE EMOTIONS OF OUR HISTORY AND OUR KNOWLEDGE MINGLE.<\/p>\n

SOME WORDS HAVE HAD THEIR DAY, BECOME OBSOLETE, OLD-FASHIONED OR OVERUSED, WHILE OTHERS HAVE RE-EMERGED…<\/p>\n

SAYING IS ALREADY IN ACTION, ACTION IS CREATIVE AND PART OF THE MENTAL LANDSCAPE IN WHICH WE THINK AND WHICH SPEAKS THROUGH US.”<\/p>\n

ORLAN <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

ngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\n

Draps-peaux, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France,2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

In 2011, ORLAN presented Drap-Peaux Hybrid\u00e9s in the exhibition Paris-Delhi-Bombay at the Centre Pompidou organized by Sophie Duplaix and Fabrice Bousteau. The artist created an enormous Indian and French hybrid flag in sequins, entitled Draps-peaux hybrid\u00e9s, measuring 7 m x 5 m, which was installed at the entrance to the exhibition, with a technical ceiling made up of fans and lights. The wind coupled with the lights gave the illusion of LED programming.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

ngg_shortcode_4_placeholder\n

Un Boeuf Sur La Langue, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux Arts de Nantes, Chapelle de l’Oratoire, France,2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

In 2010, ORLAN created the exhibition Un boeuf sur la langue (An ox on the tongue<\/i>).for which she created a silk velvet printed by Brochier silk mills with a design showing viruses, phages, blood, skin and muscle cells, almost purely for the pleasure of touching and seeing this highly vibratory, highly pictorial material with which she created seats, dresses, works and spaces imitating stained glass.<\/p>\n

\n

These dresses were worn by black models and were black on the back, but very colorful on the front. The furniture included a table with a revolving top and a very large semi-circular bench made up of interlocking stools on castors, on which the public sat during the many discussions organized during the exhibition about the words featured in the space. Participants could either stay in the conversation collectively, or roll up their seats and detach themselves from the group, and the conversation became individual again.<\/p>\n

The concept of the exhibition was to blend design, fashion, art, sculpture, texts and medical imagery in a single venue, the Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts in Nantes.<\/p>\n

When we entered the installation, everything was black and we couldn’t understand what the mannequins were holding. The atmosphere was heavy, inquisitive, almost morbid. Moving into the oratory chapel, little by little it was possible to read texts like “dire”, “ath\u00e9e”, “sur-femme”, “symbiotique”… And, at the same time, see the front of the garments made from this very colorful silk velvet, like a harlequinade. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nngg_shortcode_5_placeholder\n

Drive-In: ORLAN Remix, Abbaye de Maubuisson, France,2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

Drive-in: ORLAN REMIX, the unlimited installation presented in the largest room at Maubuisson Abbey, not only highlights the tyranny of social convention, but also substitutes it with a space of freedom where other ideals of life become possible.<\/p>\n

A symbol of the social constraints attached to marriage (the preoccupation with luxury and appearance), the huge inflatable limousine turns out to be a simulacrum. Far from this standardization, and echoing the generic title of the exhibition: “Mixed unions, free marriages and barbarian nuptials”. ORLAN points out the absurdity of racism and puts into perspective the evidence of mixing and hybridization.<\/p>\n

\n

The recurring motif of Harlequin’s cloak in the video, projected onto the back of the barn and onto the limousine windows (transformed into stained glass for the occasion), acts as a metaphor. It replaces a smooth, orderly vision of the world with a patchwork of combinations and futures. To the sound of the Paso Doble and in a popular ballroom atmosphere, ORLAN makes her skin cells, filmed in macro, dance with those of other humans and animal species. Once again, she uses her body to push back taboos and defend a reality in the making, showing what we’re all made of, whatever our skin color. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nngg_shortcode_6_placeholder\n

No Comment, Saint-\u00c9tienne Design Biennial,2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

No-comment<\/i> is a sculpture-installation created against soccer harassment. It consists of a large cross made of stretched canvas and frame, onto which is projected a video in which ORLAN has mixed the sound of soccer matches and mass, creating a soundtrack of rumors and clamor.<\/p>\n

\n

At the foot of the cross, there are a hundred footballs in which ORLAN has printed excerpts from the most erotic of hymns.<\/p>\n

One of the balloons is sacralized on a square white wooden base and preserved by a plexiglass bell.<\/p>\n

ORLAN questions the social phenomenon of soccer, which is taking over our lives. <\/p>\n

She draws a parallel between religion and soccer, which is why she mixes the sounds of mass and matches, because in both cases there is ritual and worship. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

ngg_shortcode_7_placeholder\n

Suture-Hybridization-Recycling, Espacio Artes Visuales, Murcia, Spain,2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

Virtually all of ORLAN’s work can be read through the prism of dress, costume and cross-dressing. For the artist, clothing is a better interface than skin. You can’t choose your skin, but thanks to clothing, you can create a second skin, a calling card as close as possible to who you are, to the image you want to produce, to your culture, to your tastes, to build your calling card and who you want to be. <\/p>\n

\n

In 2009, ORLAN created the installation Suture-Hybridation-Recyclage, in which she hybridized her wardrobe following the same protocol with David Delfin, Maroussia Rebecq and Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, asking them to find a way of assembling two of her different garments to bring together times, materials, designers and moments in her history. Maroussia Rebecq has cut two garments and attached a small fluorescent yellow lace to bring them together, while David Delfin has attached ribbons full of staples, enabling them to be detached and reattached to another garment, creating a hybridization, or rather a temporary assembly and multiple shifting hybridizations.<\/p>\n

Agatha Ruiz de la Prada proposed a more radical solution. She carefully selected beautiful dresses from her museum, cut them in half and then split ORLAN’s garments in half from the waist down and assembled them.<\/p>\n

So each dress was recomposed with half an Agatha Ruiz de la Prada dress, and half dresses from ORLAN’s wardrobe, whose designer I don’t necessarily know. ORLAN has kept her entire wardrobe since adolescence. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

ngg_shortcode_8_placeholder\n

Portraits of my time, mirrors with hermetically sealed containers containing: blood, oil, polluted water from the canals of Venice, gold, sequins, Venice, GLASSTRESS 2009<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_9_placeholder\n

Biopsie, Le manteau d’Arlequin, Liverpool,2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

In the preface to Tiers-instruit<\/i>, entitled “La\u00efcit\u00e9”, Michel Serres describes the Harlequin who, having gradually removed all his layers of patchwork clothing during a round-the-world tour, presents a skin that is also in patchwork form. ORLAN was greatly inspired by this work, which she will read during the Biopsie<\/i> performance.<\/p>\n

\n

This performance in the form of a medical intervention was realized in 2007, when ORLAN was invited for a three-month residency at the University of Perth in Australia, where they created the SymbioticA laboratory through Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr in the Department of Human Anatomy and Biology, in collaboration with BioArt technician Jens Hauser.<\/p>\n

The staging was minimal: around the hospital bed on which ORLAN lay, dressed in harlequin cloth, were two sheets of the same fabric, one velvet and the other satin.<\/p>\n

A diamond-shaped incision was made in the groin crease by burn surgeon Fiona Wood.<\/p>\n

Following this medical intervention, the installation “Le manteau d’Arlequin” was created. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

ngg_shortcode_10_placeholder\n

Pi\u00e8ce Lumineuse, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

Pi\u00e8ce lumineuse<\/i> is an installation created by ORLAN with the help of architect Philippe Chiambaretta and exhibited at the CCC in Tours in 2004, curated by Marc Sanchez and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Sans, then at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2005.<\/p>\n

\n

It’s a very large, bright room, with convex walls in places. When you entered the room, you could listen to the sound of the video, which was displayed on a small screen like a cartel outside the room.<\/p>\n

For this installation, ORLAN has completely reworked the image of her surgeon, Dr. Marjorie Kramer, who herself  has to rework her image. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

ngg_shortcode_11_placeholder\n

 <\/p>\n


\n
\n A little time … and you won’t see me anymore … a little time … and you will see me.., <\/span>
\n <\/strong>
\n<\/em>
\n Espace Lyonnais d’art contemporain, 1995<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

ORLAN created the installation “Un peu de temps … et vous ne me verrez plus … un peu de temps … et vous me verrez” in 1995 for the Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, in the continuity of his surgical operations-performances.<\/p>\n

\n

The artist paints the walls and ceiling of the stairwell at the Espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain in the same fluorescent green as the operating theater in New York for the 7th Omnipr\u00e9sence operation. In the ceiling, there was a huge three-armed operating theatre with three spotlights, and four screens showing video footage of the operations integrated into the ceiling. The title is inscribed on the wall, on the floor, on a turntable… depending on the version.<\/p>\n

Later, the piece was purchased by Thierry Raspail for the collection of the city’s Museum of Modern Art, of which he was then director. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nngg_shortcode_12_placeholder\n


\n
\n OMNIPRESENCE II<\/strong>
\n <\/span>
\n<\/em>
\n New York, Galerie Sandra Gering, 1993<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

OMNIPR\u00c9SENCE II is the major component in surgical-performance operations.<\/p>\n

This is a photographic installation presented as a work in progress in the Sandra Gering gallery , based on two ideas: to show what is usually kept secret, and to establish a comparison between the self-portrait made by the machine-computer and the self-portrait made by the MACHINE-CORPS. For this purpose, ORLAN had arranged 40 metal diptychs lacquered red-brown like dried blood in the gallery, corresponding to 40 days of exhibition. At the bottom of the diptych: a screen shot showing the image of a face created using morphing software.<\/p>\n

\n

ORLAN has captured the “in-between”, i.e. the exact image of the environment conceived from her face hybridized with a portrait of one of her art-historical reference figures, without retouching.<\/p>\n

At the top, on the other side of the diptych, ORLAN used magnets to place the image of the day, a self-portrait made by the MACHINE-CORPS, of a face first with bandages, then with colors: from blue to yellow to red, the whole quite swollen. A metal plate was installed between these two images, engraved with the words: entre-deux and the day’s date.<\/p>\n

By the last day, the installation was complete and so was the exhibition. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nngg_shortcode_13_placeholder\n


\n
\n
\n ART-ACC\u00c8S-REVUE,<\/b>
\n <\/strong>
\n <\/span>
\n<\/em>
\n
\n 198<\/b>
\n <\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\n
\n 2-1987<\/b>
\n <\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

In 1980, a Minitel, the forerunner of the Internet, was given to every household, but without having anticipated any interesting content.<\/span><\/p>\n

ORLAN has seized upon it to give it artistic content. So, in 1982, she founded ART-ACC\u00c8S-REVU, an art magazine available on Minitel, co-produced by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Develay, who was seeking, among other things, to democratize art.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

ORLAN invited visual poets, musicians, video artists, literary figures, philosophers and visual artists to create a work (or several works) using the enormous pixels and 8 gradations of gray that made up the Minitel. <\/span><\/p>\n

These were the best international artists, carefully selected from those working in situ and\/or with conceptual issues. Artists capable of fighting with or against constraints, able to divert and circumvent difficulties, and to ask themselves the problems of the medium they invest in. <\/span><\/p>\n

Two keys are available to help the public better understand the works and artists. Consultants wishing to do so will be able to display two additional pages on their screen, one written by the artist himself, setting out his position and angle of attack, and explaining why he has chosen to respond to the Minitel in this way. Another page given over to a critic chosen by the artist (and not the other way around) will present the artist to the public in clear, non-jargonized terms. Only artists can transgress, adapt, play with and exploit the full potential of this new tool.<\/span><\/p>\n

The resulting works are often counterpoints (Bernar Venet, Ange Leccia, Vera Molnar, Aldo Spinelli) to the usual videotex, or ironically imitate the services by mischievously slipping into them (Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Bory, Alain Snyers, Jean-Claude Lef\u00e8vre). <\/span><\/p>\n

Every two months, the magazine featured additional works and columns by artists (Ben, Charles Dreyfus, Scarpetta, Sarenco), and took into account questions from the general public, giving answers and the right of reply. ORLAN has organized nights in the company of Buren, Didier Bay, L\u00e9a Lublin, Morellet… <\/span><\/p>\n

For our surprise parties, isn’t it delicious to make love, guilt-free, with Sainte-ORLAN flashing her breast and eyes, a welcome replacement for the saints of Lisieux or elsewhere with their little colored lights, this cold, modern Minitel that can become, depending on the artist, baroque, ironic or kitsch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Poetry and literature were the Minitel’s tried-and-tested and favorite partners, and a new way of writing\/reading was born, a new visual poetry (Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Develay, Sarenco, Jil Wolman). <\/span><\/p>\n

When it came to music, the Minitel had no sound! Musicians such as Franck Royon Le M\u00e9e proposed graphic scores.<\/span> Musicians such as Gean-Yves Bosseur, Alain Savouret, Martin Davori Jagodic, Pierre Mari\u00e9tan, Michel Redolfi and Max Neuhaus played on plastic scores or unplayable scores. <\/span><\/p>\n

On several occasions, ORLAN has shown large-scale installations consisting of stacks of Minitels with the images produced. <\/span><\/p>\n

This installation was presented by Jean Paul Lyota in the exhibition Les Immat\u00e9riaux at the Centre Pompidou, 1985. <\/span><\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\nngg_shortcode_14_placeholder\n

 <\/p>\n

Staging for a large Fiat, Festival d’art \u00e9lectronique, 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

The video is made up of several sequences, each presented by ORLAN as a spectator announcing the title of each clip, including “Sainte-ORLAN makes fire come out of her ass!”; “Sainte-ORLAN pulls a big rabbit out of her sex”; “ORLAN transvestite en Sainte-ORLAN throws arrows and turns her heart upside down for a few sequins”; “Sainte-ORLAN inscribes herself tone on tone between her fathers and tonsure” …<\/p>\n

\n

With very limited resources, ORLAN reworked the video in post-production, using special effects that were highly avant-garde for the time. For the occasion, she created a mask printed with a photo of her vulva. She would later use this accessory on numerous occasions, notably in her “Kiss on pussy” performance. She is dressed in a photographic canvas dress depicting her naked body, which she had created for her performance “S’habiller de sa propre nudit\u00e9”. Staging a big fiat is a humorous video. In this work, ORLAN incorporates a text she wrote on the death of her father, who used to place fireflies on his hat at night. The text reads, “You put all the fireflies on earth around your hat and went deep into the night – now I know where the stars come from.” The video speaks of his two fathers: one for life, Fran\u00e7ois, one for his art, Marcel and his star-shaped tonsure.<\/p>\n

ORLAN presented this video in a multi-screen installation in a marquee set up as part of the Festival d’Art \u00c9lectronique in Toulouse in 1986. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

ngg_shortcode_15_placeholder\n


\n
\n Bride’s maid outfit,<\/strong>
\n <\/span>
\n<\/em>
\n 198<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\n 1<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

Panoplie d’une fille bonne \u00e0 marier<\/i> is an interactive installation in three panels of faux black tiles. In the center is a life-size, 1:1 effigy of ORLAN, created with a black-and-white photograph of her nude body, photographed and colored in Tyrian pink, glued to wood and trimmed.

\n

On either side, the white faux-tiled elements depicted a garter belt, a long skirt with lace, a bra with halved plastic hard-boiled eggs glued to each breast, and a sex adorned with plastic parsley.<\/p>\n

This character could be dressed and undressed. It was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

ORLAN was a pioneer; there were no other artists doing this with photography. She brought photography out of its flatness, out of its confinement in the frame and on the wall. She wanted to give representations of the body a new presentation in space, to create a sfumato between figuration and refiguration. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nngg_shortcode_16_placeholder\n

Documentary study: Drap\u00e9-the Baroque. Chapelle \u00e9lev\u00e9e \u00e0 moi-m’aime (Staging for a saint),<\/span><\/strong><\/em> Espace Lyonnais d’art contemporain, 1980<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

The Chapel Raised to Myself (staged for a Saint) is one of the key works in the Documentary Study series: Drap\u00e9-the Baroque<\/em>. It condenses various aspects of the artist’s reflections on the Baroque into an extravagant sensory installation. Built for the Made in France exhibition at the Espace lyonnais d’art contemporain, the monumental chapel measured 10m\u00b2 x 10m\u00b2.<\/p>\n

\n

Both an installation and a performance space, the Chapelle functioned as a work of art in the artist’s absence, and as a set designed for the performance. The entrance was decorated with artistically draped hangings, topped by a black-and-white photo of Sein unique, Monstration phallique<\/em>. Once inside, visitors were confronted with a personal theater made up of real, artificial and virtual 3D elements: a resin statue of Saint Orlan, a single bare breast and a finger raised to the sky, quantities of plastic flowers mixed with lilies and arums, a hologram representing an angel, live doves. Real and fake marble plaques and photographs of ORLAN as a madonna were placed on the floor in front of the statue, and a series of columns from the Op\u00e9ra de Lyon formed a semicircle around it. Behind the statue, she had placed a large halo of mirrors, a video monitor showing the space and part of her sculpted face, accentuating the perspective effect created by the combination of architectural elements. The title refers to her own ironic canonization, her appropriation of the role of the Saint and her own designation of a place for this cult. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nngg_shortcode_17_placeholder\n

D\u00e9shabillage, habillage, rhabillage, libres et changeants, Interactive photographic installation,1977
\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

D\u00e9shabillage, habillage, rhabillage, libres et changeant (Undressing, dressing, undressing, free and changing) is a 1977 installation in which the public is invited to turn pieces of ORLAN’s body photographs, glued to wood, to dress her as a madonna or undress her, setting up an image of ORLAN and very surprising intermediate images.<\/p>\n

\n

The constructed and deconstructed images, mixing color and black-and-white photography, produced successive series, a set of very deregulated and visually interesting photographs exhibited in her retrospective at the Maison Europ\u00e9enne de la Photographie by J\u00e9r\u00f4me Neutres in 2017, “ORLAN en Capitales” and in many other exhibitions, including at the Mus\u00e9e des Abattoirs in Toulouse, curated by Annabelle T\u00e9n\u00e8ze, and recently at 104 in the interactive exhibition “F\u00eate foraine”, curated by Jos\u00e9 Manuel \u00c1lvarez and Fabrice Bousteau. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nngg_shortcode_18_placeholder\n

 <\/p>\n


\n
\n T\u00eates \u00e0 claques, jeu de massacre,<\/strong>
\n <\/span>
\n<\/em>
\n 19<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\n 77<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

In 1977, ORLAN created the work “T\u00eate \u00e0 claques, jeu de massacre”, which we consider today to be the first evidence of her interest in interactivity between works and public, prefiguring her use of new technologies. <\/p>\n

This was an installation using photographs of ORLAN’s face  cut out and glued to wood.  The public was invited to tap a cloth ball on the heads to make them fall. They fell, making a noise, and came up again, making another noise, like at a funfair.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nngg_shortcode_19_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INSTALLATION Slow de l’Artiste installation at CENTQUATRE Paris, 2022\/2023 A few months before the release of her first musical album “Le Slow de L’Artiste”, ORLAN created an immersive art installation at the CENTQUATRE Paris, designed to tease out her future musical project. The album is previewed in this installation, on a loop, all day long. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":18205,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlan.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlan.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlan.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlan.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlan.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlan.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19677,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlan.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18494\/revisions\/19677"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlan.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlan.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}