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The Supplement: Olivier de Sagazan

Olivier de Sagazan is a painter, sculptor and performance artist, and in common with the photographs of Joel Peter Witkin , de Sagazan's work is preoccupied with bodily transformation, deformation and the dubious pleasures of horror. His performance piece, Transfiguration , which is featured below, is like seeing one of Francis Bacon's screaming popes come to terrible life, or sharing one of Tim Robbin's visions from Adrian Lyne's 1990 film, Jacob's Ladder . I urge you to watch de Sagazan's film - in essence, it's an artist covering himself in clay and paint; just keep telling yourself that. It's one of the creepiest things I've seen in a long time... Transfiguration