The iconic French contemporary artist ORLAN’s solo exhibition “The Icon of the French Contemporary Art. Plan du Film and Other Scenarios” will be on show at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design from the 8th of November to the 31st of January 2015.
For the first time in Latvia, the exhibition offers the opportunity to meet one of the contemporary art icons, the French artist ORLAN. An artist whose work is always controversial and pushing the traditional boundaries: between classical art and technological innovation, academic values and elements of popular culture, the beautiful and the ugly, male and female perceptions, etc. The personality of ORLAN is always in the limelight, and it is through this publicity that the artist expresses her principles and strives to overcome violence, gender discrimination, masculine ideology, racism, xenophobia and other “roots of all evil”.
All her life ORLAN has been trying to break the glass wall between the genders, generations, races and ethnic groups, cultures, religions, philosophies, between those who believe and those who do not, between the various ways to create art, as the artist said in an interview with “KDi” in January 1, 2013.