La Maison Française presents French genre defying feminist French artist ORLAN in new exhibition opens Sept. 17

In cooperation with exhibitions at distinguished galleries Ceysson & Bénétière and The Opening Gallery, La Maison Française of New York University (16 Washington Mews, New York, N.Y.) will host a month-long exhibition of a recent series by the trailblazing artist ORLAN, opening on Tuesday, Sept. 17 @ 6 p.m., and running through Oct. 18.

A continuity of her "self-hybridations series," the works reflect ORLAN's tribute to certain women in history whom she admires as defenders of causes that she has supported throughout her extraordinary life and career. The pioneering women on display paved the way for others by taking risks that sometimes cost them their lives. Often forgotten, erased, or underrepresented, ORLAN draws them back into the spotlight, breaking down the walls between artistic practices, genders, and eras. Her gesture of hybridization with the other enables ORLAN, in sorority, to give these women what she calls an "artist's kiss," creating an encounter between women that transcends time and place.

The works in the exhibition's New York premiere represent a selection of "femmages," other "femmages" are imagined and ready to be rendered, limited only by ORLAN's capacity for transformation, which is to say, limitless.

About ORLAN :

"I AM ORLAN, AMONG OTHERS AND TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE. MY NAME
IS WRITTEN EACH LETTER IN CAPITAL BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE GIVEN
INTO THE RANKS, I DON'T WANT TO BE GIVEN INTO THE LINE"

ORLAN is one of the greatest internationally recognized French artists. She is not tied to any 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 biotechnologies to question with a critical distance the social phenomena of our time.

ORLAN created the magazine Art-Accès Revue on Minitel (a seminal version of the Internet). ORLAN founded and organized the Lyon International Performance and Video Symposium. ORLAN constantly and radically changes data, disrupting conventions and ready-to-think. She opposes natural, social and political determinism, all forms of domination, male supremacy, religion, cultural segregation, and racism. Always mixed with humor, sometimes parody or even the grotesque, her work questions social phenomena and upsets pre-established codes.

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For further information, call 212-998-8752.

About La Maison Française of NYU:

For over sixty years, La Maison Française of New York University has served as a major forum for cultural exchange between the French-speaking world and the United States. Its rich program of lectures, symposia, concerts, screenings, exhibitions, and festivals provides an invaluable resource to the university community, as well as the general public. One of the most active French centers on an American campus, La Maison Française of NYU is recognized as a Center of Excellence by the French Embassy in the United States.

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