Olivier de Sagazan, Gareth Pugh, Nick Knight, Roly Porter, Jounji ku

Originally trained as a biologist, Olivier de Sagazan turned to painting and sculpting with the everpresent 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 which we see a man gradually disfiguring himself with clay into a kind of monster. This halfman, halfbeast is searching beneath his masks for who he is. June 1998: I am in my workshop. I have been trying for weeks to give life to a sculpture. Suddenly an idea comes to me: I want to immerse myself in the matter that way, I will be sure to make a lively structure. I place a camera in front of me, surround myself with material I use to sculpt and paint, and then I begin. My head is a pedestal, I work blindly, with my internal perception as my only guide. I cover my face with a layer of clay, then make a first sculpted face, which I erase rapidly. I try again