ORLAN is one of the most important French artists, author of the manifesto “Carnal Art”. She uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, 3D, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and robotics, as well as scientific and medical techniques such as surgery and biotechnology, to question the social phenomena of our time. The artist praises the freedom of the body and of herself, with works that are protests against social paradigms and beauty standards.

At the invitation of BoCA, in this, her first workshop in Portugal, ORLAN proposes that each participant chooses an aspect of her work that they want to explore, in order to develop an artistic proposal related to a phenomenon in society.

ORLAN questions the status of the body in society through all the social, cultural, traditional, political and religious pressures that are inscribed in the flesh, in bodies and particularly in women’s bodies. Thus, over the course of three days, each participant will situate and develop their own artistic approach based on concepts identified in ORLAN’s work.