Transfiguration
Event
The play Transfiguration is the story of the sculptor's unfulfilled desire to instil life into his creation. 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 identify and becoming a living work of art, somewhere puppeteer in a puppet. But it is then that the material blinds him and he is forced to look inwards, into the very depths of his self. In a fascinating, expressive and total performance, Sagazan shifts his identity on stage. He pierces, erases and unravels the layers of his face in a frantic and uninhibited search. Painting and sculpting oneself becomes a form of ritual positioned between dance and trance, whose creative motor is improvisation, random and serendipity. - Olivier de Sagazan
