

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


From Da Vinci to the Dancefloor: Why are songwriters so fascinated by the Mona Lisa?
By Katie Gillespie Picture the Mona Lisa. Now picture her again, except the refined features of the Italian noblewoman, Lisa del...


Art in the Age of Extinction by Esme Garlake
Whilst on the Extinction Rebellion protests recently, I began to question how art history can (and should) relate to the climate crisis…...


