#carnal art

[divaricca]

“The aestheticization of the female form.''

“I see all of my creative work… as a continuing practice of living self-portraiture. My life and art are irrevocably entwined” (“Manifesto” 64).

“When I’m about to pluck, if I think of pain I think of geishas. Trained from a young age for beauty. If I have a hair on my upper lip, I think of African women and lip disks. I know nothing about them, but, my Goddess, the sacrifice..''

“...Other operations, however, were motivated by my continued quest for beauty, a PASSION I devoted myself to completely – body, mind, and spirit”

I understood the aestheticization of the female form and the performance of femininity as among the greatest narratives in the history of art and culture. […] As an artist and a transsexual aesthete it was my intention to augment, to continue, to deconstruct, to celebrate, and to subvert this lineage in the most vibrant and visceral ways I could.

- Nina Arsenault (“Manifesto” 65)

[borosmarlin]

[qebv]

[towerjonz]

- Darling, I love your spleen, I love your liver, I adore your pancreas and the line of your femur excites me.

ORLAN

[borntobecheap]

"Skin is deceiving... in life, one only has one's skin... there is a bad exchange in human relations because one never is what one has... I have the skin of an angel, but I am a jackal... the skin of a crocodile, but I am a puppy, the skin of a black person, but I am white, the skin of a woman, but I am a man; I never have the skin of what I am. There is no exception to the rule because I am never what I have."

[amysteriouscat]

I never have the skin of what I really am.

Carnal Art, Orlan

[wildcat2030]

Darling, I love your spleen, I love your liver, I adore your pancreas and the line of your femur excites me.

Orlan

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[fetishisminfashion]

CARNAL ART 

as defined by ORLAN:

Carnal Art is self-portraiture in the classical sense, but realised through the possibility of technology. It swings between defiguration and refiguration. Its inscription in the flesh is a function of our age. The body has become a “modified ready-made”, no longer seen as the ideal it once represented; the body is not anymore this ideal ready-made it was satisfaying to sign. ORLAN's body of work spans five decades of performance, digital photography and collaborative works. She has explored her body as a medium for art, from using it as a unit of measurement to modifying it in a series of surgical operations. Her art has informed, influenced and inspired fetishistic culture at large, and M°BA 13 will pay homage to her ongoing art with the inclusion of a recent work in the MOOD ROOM exhibition and a special event during ASVOFF with Diane Pernet on July 6th. 

http://www.ORLAN.eu