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We Are Inconsolable, ORLAN, 2025 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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In 2025, ORLAN once again explores painting by blending it with artificial intelligence. This approach aims to break down the boundaries\u2014the \u201cwalls of ice\u201d\u2014that separate traditional artistic techniques from contemporary technologies. By establishing a dialogue across eras, the artist explores the continuity of forms, gestures, and intentions. She demonstrates how painting and artificial intelligence can mutually enrich each other within an expanded creative process. ORLAN is part of the Augmentism movement\/ <\/span>augmented painting<\/span> with other artists: Obvious, Maurice Benayoun, Olga Kisseleva, Alexandra Boucherifi\u2026

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In this new body of work, ORLAN uses artificial intelligence to create self-portraits conceived as true manifestos. Her eyes are bulging and her mouth is screaming, baring her teeth, ready to bite so that her anger is expressed as an extension of the <\/span> Women who cry are angry<\/span><\/i> (2019), in which she blended with Pablo Picasso\u2019s portraits of Dora Maar crying. ORLAN revives an iconography marked by suffering to infuse it with a political and contemporary interpretation, transforming tears into an expression of rebellion and resistance. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

ORLAN is deeply distressed by what is currently happening in the world: the rise of the far right, totalitarianism, masculinism, racism, and religious extremism; the multitude of wars; and the growing dominance of the dictates of force, power, and money.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To make this process of emancipation tangible, ORLAN gives concrete form to its various stages, conceiving this series as an evolving project. The first image, generated entirely by artificial intelligence, is deliberately left untouched. It serves as a starting point, a kind of raw analysis of the machine\u2019s capabilities, revealing both its potential and its limitations in image generation. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Gradually, ORLAN reworks, alters, and transforms the AI-generated images through painting. A dialogue emerges between the digital gesture and the human gesture, between algorithmic automatism and artistic intention, coexisting within the same space-time.  <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Throughout the series, painting takes center stage. It becomes a symbol of a \u201creclaiming of control\u201d that is both emotional and political, marking the assertion of the subject. This shift from the digital to the pictorial demonstrates the freedom with which ORLAN creates, moving from one medium to another without betraying herself. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The series concludes with a painting created entirely by ORLAN. This final gesture affirms total emancipation: that of a body, a voice, and an image that have been fully reclaimed. <\/div><\/div>Show More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

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ORLAN\u2019s Presentation at the AI Summit \u2013 Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de l\u2019Od\u00e9on, Paris, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\r\n\r\n