My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society..

Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear younger or better according to the de….

I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a mas….

If one leaves home one might get a flower pot on his head and die..

Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of mas….

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs..

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art..

I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and religious pressures, wh….

There are a lot of people who do crazy things without necessarily being crazy, for example crossing the Atlantic solo. Some crazy things which requir….

Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation..

Only a few kinds of images force you to shut your eyes: death, suffering, the opening of the body, some aspects of pornography for some people, and f….

I make myself into a new image in order to produce new images..

A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried ….