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Originally trained as a biologist, Olivier de Sagazan turned to painting and sculpting with the ever-present idea of questioning organic life. From his passion to give life to matter came the idea for him to cover his own body with clay in order to observe the resulting “object”. This experiment gave rise to the creation of a solo, « Transfiguration », in 1998, in which we see a man gradually disfiguring himself with clay into a kind of  half-man, half-beast  searching beneath his masks for who he is. Transfiguration was presented in 2016 at the Biennal de Shanghai at the Power Station of Art and with La Messe de l’Âne at the Biennale of Venice in 2021

We find a similar process of transformation applied to dancers in his creations:

His performance « Transfiguration » has led to numerous collaborations with artists such as:

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