Orlan - Lot 113

Orlan Pomme-cul and Petites fleurs 48 pages, paperback, dust jacket Numbered 174 from an edition of 285 + current edition "L'art en écrit", 2007. Editions Janninck Format: 125 x 210 mm Enclosed is an original signed pigment print showing a juxtaposition of Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du monde and ORLAN's L'Origine de la guerre, stamped with her own lips. Note: ORLAN (b. 1947, lives and works between Paris, Los Angeles and New York), with her politically engaged works, questions the status of women in contemporary society. She is not bound by any one material, technology or artistic practice. She uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, 3D, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and robotics (she has created a robot in her image that speaks with her voice), as well as scientific and medical techniques such as surgery and biotechnology, to question the social phenomena of our time. A collection of previously unpublished poetic texts by ORLAN, shedding new light on her work. The first edition is accompanied by an original signed pigment print featuring a juxtaposition of Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du monde and ORLAN's L'Origine de la guerre, stamped with her own lips.