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, (played for over 350 times) 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, who is the puppeteer.

Olivier was invited in 2021 for the Biennal Dance de Venise. His performance “Transfiguration” has led to numerous collaborations with artists such as FKA Twigs, Mylène Farmer A l’ombre, Ron Frick for the movie “Samsara”, Qiu Yang for the movie “O” produced by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Gareth Pugh and Nick Knight, Wim Vandekeybus, David Wahl… and Roland Auzet.