My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.
OrlanI wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.
OrlanBeing a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.
OrlanOnly a few kinds of images force you to shut your eyes: death, suffering, the opening of the body, some aspects of pornography for some people, and for others, giving birth. In this case, the eyes become black holes in which the image is absorbed willingly or unwillingly, these images are swallowed up and hit just where it hurts, without passing though the usual filters.
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