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october 24, 2017 - Macro

MACRO - Contemporary Art Museum of Rome presents "VideORLAN - Technobody"

ORLAN

VideORLAN - Technobody

Press Preview:Tuesday 24 October 2017 at 11.30

Private view:Tuesday 24 October 2017 at 18.00

Open to the public: 25 October – 3 December 2017

MACRO

Project room #1 and #2

via Nizza 138, Rome

From 25 October to 3 December 2017 the MACRO - #contemporaryart Museum of Rome presents "VideORLAN - Technobody", an exhibition by renowned French artist and performer ORLAN. Curated by Alessandra Mammì, supported by the City of Rome's Department for Cultural Affairs and Heritage (Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Crescita culturale - Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali), the exhibition has been created in collaboration with the Villa Medici and Studio Stefania Miscetti.

The exhibition retraces ORLAN's entire artistic adventure, from her first photographic sculptures to the performance pieces recorded on video, up to the most recent work making use of augmented reality and 3D technology. In addition, her spectacular video game and interactive installation, "Expérimentale Mise en jeu" (2015-2016) will be tested out in Italy for the first time.

This complete immersion in the French artist's work brings her back to the capital twenty years after the retrospective exhibition, "ORLAN in Rome, 1964-1996", mounted by Studio Stefania Miscetti and Sala Uno.

The #macro exhibition is characterized by a surprising use of digital technology, a result of the artist's recent exposure to a virtual reality seemingly in opposition to, and yet in symmetry with, the carnality of the work which has marked the course of one of Europe's most radical, innovative and brave artists; one capable of riding the spirit of the times with indefatigable research.

For #orlan – who has always been interested in multimedia technology and what the contemporary age has to offer – digital technology actually represents a different means of building images and channelling recurring themes (the body, sexuality, stereotypes of beauty; cultural, political and religious impositions; and the vast symbology that runs from metamorphosis to hybridity) into less perceptible but no less powerful universes.


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