...Nowadays, maybe out of despair, the only thing you can change is yourself or your body. The art that I am interested in is close to; belongs to resistance. Art must shake up prejudices. Shake our thoughts. Art must be outside of all norms. Art is not there to cradle us. To serve us with what we already know. Art must take risks at the risk of not being immediately accepted. Art is deviant and it is by itself a social project. And even if this stance is romantic or naive, I say that art can - art must - change the world. And that is it's only justification. Art is not meant to decorate people's houses or apartments. For that, we have all we need. We have fishbowls, house plants, doilies, curtains, furniture...
- Orlan, 2006
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