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105 2015 CONTEMPORARY ARTIST Modem Women’s Milano Modem Women’s Paris Spring-Summer 2016 Cover by ORLAN ORLAN uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, 3D, video games, and augmented reality throughout her body of work, as well as scientific techniques, such as surgery and bio-technology. ORLAN quickly became a major figure of the body art movement, or more specifically of ‘Carnal Art’ , which she defined in her 1989 manifesto. In 1964, ORLAN initiated her own re-invention process, and therefore changed her name to ORLAN, written in capital letters, and created “ ORLAN accouche d’elle m’aime ” (“ORLAN gives birth to her loved self”), with the aim to abolish her biographical and physical existence for the sake of her work. In 1977, she achieved great success with the controversial performance “ The Artist’s Kiss ”, presented in the edition of FIAC in Paris. In 1978, she founded the International Symposium of Performance in Lyon and puted an emphasis on a recurring performance project named “ MesuRages”, in which she used her own body as a as a unit of measurement, called the “ Orlan-body ”. In this context, she measured iconic places - Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (US), the M HKA in Antwerp, Belgium and etc. . In 1990, she decided to use cosmetic surgery as an artistic medium. Since 1998, ORLAN uses the technique of morphing to merge her face with past facial repre- sentations from the New World, giving birth to a mutant beauty, located at the crossroads of Western culture to non-Western one. In 2014, ORLAN released one of her latest series, “ Masques de l’opéra de Pékin ” (“Beijing Opera Masks”), in which she aimed to go beyond Beijing’s opera rules that forbid women to interpret their own roles.