Transfiguration - performance Olivier de Sagazan

The performance "Transfiguration" is the story of the sculptor 's unfulfilled desire to imbue his creation with life. In a gesture of despair, Olivier de Sagazan sculpts clay on his head, burying himself in the material, eradicating his identity and becoming a living work of art, somewhere between marionette and puppeteer. But when the material blinds him and he is forced to look inwards, into the very depths of his Self. In a fascinating, expressive, total performance, Sagazan shifts identities on stage, from man to animal and from animal to various hybrid creatures. He pierces, erases and unravels the layers of his face in a frenetic and uninhibited quest. Painting and sculpting oneself becomes a form of ritual positioned between dance and trance where improvisation is essential. Transfiguration gives a new meaning to the notion of life, offering captivating, disturbing, moving insights into the possibility and unpredictabilities of morphogenesis. There I have a hominid face, then suddenly i become a dog, bird, reptile, fish. And there I sink, more and more indefinable, Unnameable. " it's there, maybe there, further away, looking for, looking again... " "I am flabbergasted to see the degree to which people think its normal to be alive. Disfigurement in art is a way to bring us face to face with real life !" We can find him, both on stage and in the movies: Ron Frick's Samsara, Nick Antosca's Channel Zero. In a video clip with Mylène Farmer, FKA Twigs, De Sagazan collaborated with Nick Knight and Gareth Pugh on a fashion film and soon in the movies: Discarnate by Mario Sorrenti and The Mute by Bartosz Konopka ... http://olivierdesagazan.com