until Saturday October 18 2014

Opening september 6

Michel Reim
T : +33 (0)1 42 72 68 13
42 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France

galerie@michelrein.com
www.michelrein.com

Michel Rein, Paris is pleased to present ORLAN’s third personal exhibition. (Tricéphale, 2003, Self-Hybridations Indiennes- Américaines, 2008). This new exhibition will occupy all of the gallery’s spaces.

On the ground floor ORLAN continues her work on hybridisations, beginning with the pre-Columbian (1998), African (2003) and American Indian self-hybridisations (2005), presenting a new series with masks from the Peking opera “The masks are formal characters which speak before speaking to the spectators through their colours and signs. For my “opera” I immediately show that I am ORLAN with the two lumps that transform my face. I present myself and I play with the colours, signs and masks. In the universe of photography which resembles that of canvas painting, make-up is paint on the skin which becomes a mask.”
These works contain an unprecedented principal of augmented reality.2
In the other exhibition spaces, through masks and flags, ORLAN explores the question of identities and borders. ORLAN uses masks in her work since the 60’s. Masks are worn for many purposes: protection, disguise, performance, rituals or entertainment. Masks also indicate a culture's ideal of feminine beauty. Masks conceal your own identity or represent the (br)other. Identities and borders are intimately linked