Orlan, originally named Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte, was born in France in 1947. Orlan is a French performance artist who uses her own body and the procedures of plastic surgery to make ‘carnal art’, she uses plastic surgery to question the status of the body in society. Orlan uses different techniques to create her artworks including painting, photography, video and performance work. Her works create controversy along the lines of beauty in society. Her artworks challenge the audience. The audience can de-code her statements through her strong symbols and imagery. She challenges the audience to reconsider their perception of beauty and who controls judgement in society.
Orlan’s artworks are based around societies affects. She takes ideas like gender and beauty and showcases the affects society gives to those topics. She uses visual representation, like her body, to raise the issues towards gender and beauty in our society.
Orlan’s artworks are based around societies affects. She takes ideas like gender and beauty and showcases the affects society gives to those topics. She uses visual representation, like her body, to raise the issues towards gender and beauty in our society.
Yasumasa Morimura born in Osaka, Japan in 1951, has been working as a conceptual photographer and filmmaker for more than three decades. Through a large use of props, costumes, makeup, and digital softwares, Morimura skilfully transforms himself into recognisable subjects, often from the Western culture. Morimura incorporates influences from his own Japanese culture and uses that to reinterpret past artworks. Morimura’s artworks raise different questions on gender identity and challenges cultures to form new identities. His artwork is a source of visual communication to raise topics such as gender and history in artworks, with the audience.
His artworks include a large aspect of his own culture mixed with Western cultural influences. His artworks challenge the audience about gender identity in modern texts and also previous texts. Through gender, Morimura raises numerous questions about identity, stereotypes, beauty and the role of each gender.
His artworks include a large aspect of his own culture mixed with Western cultural influences. His artworks challenge the audience about gender identity in modern texts and also previous texts. Through gender, Morimura raises numerous questions about identity, stereotypes, beauty and the role of each gender.