Olivier de Sagazan: Hybridation (NL premiere)

After 20 years, WhyNot brings the cutting edge, internationally renowned French performer and sculptor Olivier de Sagazan back to the Netherlands! Equally inspired by Francis Bacon and Samuel Beckett, De Sagazan uses clay and paint to perform acts of live sculpture in which his own face is the canvas.

Together with Isabelle Vialle he presents his disturbing love duet Hybridation. A man and a woman enter a dialogue in which the ground acts as a substitute for language – an exchange of earth and fingerprints…

Olivier de Sagazan was born in Brazzaville/Congo in 1959, he lives and works in Saint Nazaire, France. For more than 20 years Olivier de Sagazan has developed a hybrid practice that integrates painting, photography, sculpture, and performance. Disquieting and deeply moving, his body of work crosses the boundaries between the physical, intellectual, spiritual and animalistic senses. He has exhibited widely in France, Europe, US, India, Korea, China, in art galleries, museums, and festivals. With an almost cult following online, and rave reviews about his expressive and inimitable style, de Sagazan’s body art work is also featured in the non-verbal film Samsara directed by Ron Fricke and a future feature movie just filmed in Los Angeles with Mario Sorrenti and Harald Kloser.

De Sagazan: “I dreamed of being a dancer, using my own body as an essential element to express my anguish and my fascination with being alive. My performances are another way of channeling this urge. My main inspiration is in looking at nature with the eyes of the biologist I was and the philosopher I am trying to be.”

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