Olivier de Sagazan

Le visage humain n’a pas encore trouvé sa face et c’est au peintre à la lui donner… — Antonin Artaud

The performance Transfiguration is the story of the sculptor’s unfulfilled desire to imbue his creation with life. In a gesture of despair, he enters his material clay to give it life. He sculpts clay on his head, burying himself in the material, eradicating his identity and becoming a living work of art, somewhere puppeteer in a puppet. But then, 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. 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, random and serendipity are the creation motor. — Olivier de Sagazan


At first painter and sculptor, OLIVIER DE SAGAZAN is more and more working in the living arts—performance, dance, theater. He has made more than 300 performances in twenty different countries. His performances have led to numerous collaborations with artists from the world of fashion, cinema and music, such as: Ron Fricke for Samsara, FKA Twigs for the immersive project ROOMS, Mylène Farmer for her music video A l’ombre, Nick Knight and Gareth Pugh for the fashion film This is not a show, Mario Sorrenti for the movie Discarnate, Nick Antosca for the series Channel Zero and Bartosz Konopka for the movie The Mute.