100 Tonson Gallery proudly presents “ORLAN” art exhibition between July  12 – 31, 2004, as part of the “ Month of Photography – Bangkok 2 ”, a core exhibition in “LA FETE” or the French Cultural Festival, the event which is co-organized by the French Embassy and L’Alliance Francaise de Bangkok.  The Month of Photography in Bangkok-2, which will focus on the theme of Pop Culture, will present the diversity and   wealth of today’s creations brought by internationally acclaimed as well as emerging artists. Eleven partners, galleries and cultural institutions in Bangkok will show photographs in their spaces. Artist from Thailand and France also from other countries will present their work.

The artist “ORLAN” was born in 1947 in Saint-Etienne; lives and works  in Paris since 1983. 1964 already her first performances and photographies; founder of the Performance-Symposium in Lyon; Orlan produces body related works that deal with female identity in the history of art; in 1977 she gains recognition with a provocative performance Le baiser de l’artiste; 1982 founder of the first electronic art magazine in France accessed via Minitel: Art-Acc่s Revue; 1984 lecturer at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Dijon; 1990 starts her series of plastic surgery, with which she becomes known worldwide