

Against the Given: ORLAN on the Body and Choice
Yuval Aluf © ORLAN. Courtesy of ORLAN and Ceysson & Bénétière “I am a body. Nothing but a body.” ORLAN delivers the statement not as a declaration of identity but as a working position. The body, in her practice, is not an image to be represented but a material through which meaning is produced. Her work is often described as radical, provocative, or transgressive, labels that largely emerge from the outside. In conversation, however, ORLAN quickly redirects such descriptions


