For four decades the internationally renowned French artist ORLAN has interrogated every defining aspect of being human gender, ethnicity, religion, beauty, physiognomy, and even physiology itself through an endlessly mutating oeuvre thatdefies categorization. Performance, sculpture, photography, poetry, design ORLAN not only creates within these media, she disappears into them, willfully dissolving and reconfiguring her identity through her work.ORLAN is most famous for herseries of cosmetic-surgery performances in the 1990s in which she reconfigured her face and body as a critique of the...