Selected Writing & Interviews - Yuval Aluf

Yuval Aluf is an art writer and interviewer based in London. She studies History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, where she was awarded the John Hayes Travel Prize, and writes for The Courtauldian Magazine. Her work focuses on contemporary art, exhibition-making, and curatorial practice.

Through interviews and critical writing, she examines how art is encountered across galleries, art fairs, and institutional contexts. Her work addresses the relationships between artists, curators, collectors, and audiences, as well as how local art scenes operate within the global art world.

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04.Project D

ORLAN, Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte
The Courtauldian

8 March, 2026 
Special edition

ORLAN, a pioneering contemporary artist, reflects on the body as material, examining questions of agency, control, and authorship across her practice. The conversation traces her work from surgical performances to artificial intelligence, considering how the body operates as a site where cultural, political, and technological systems intersect.
The full conversion can be read here 
1/4    © ORLAN. Courtesy of ORLAN and Ceysson & Bénétière
2/4    ORLAN, New York Omnipresence, 1993, Photographic documentation of surgical performance © ORLAN. Courtesy of ORLAN and Ceysson & Bénétière
3/4    ORLAN, Hybridation series, 2010s, Digital image © ORLAN. Courtesy of ORLAN and Ceysson & Bénétière
4/4    ORLAN, Incidental Strip-tease Using Sheets, 1974, Photographic sequence © ORLAN. Courtesy of ORLAN and Ceysson & Bénétière