The Most Disturbing Performance Art You Will Ever See

Today we're talking about Olivier de Sagazan, a man who came into the public eye with his brilliant but terrifying art piece "Transfiguration"

[theendboss]

His art looks better than half of these new horror films that come out and rely mostly on CGI

[robbytheatomicengineer]

he would make a great artist in the horror genre

[eddiekonig]

This guy would totally fit in a Tool video.

[VortexKiller]

The gateway of the mind creepypasta was legendary back in the day when we all thought this was real.

[VxssxlSlxyer]

Fun Fact: Olivier is the same guy that plays the Skin Taker in Channel Zero's Candle Cove

[FlasKamel]

I'm generally not a fan of performance art or whatever this is, but EVERY single video you've dropped has covered the exceptions & my favorite topics. It's crazy! Saw a video of this guy when I was young and it haunted me. First rediscovered him in a fan-made video for a song by TOBACCO.

[ArtistLisaM]

I'm happy to see you covering Olivier and his work. I'm an artist myself, so I get wanting to find ways to take art to the next level. Each artist's method is their own, and this was Olivier's. Hopefully this will get more people to see him as something more than "That guy from the creepy dank web videos".

[KolMan]

I remember seeing these like 6 years ago when a classmate showed me. It’s genuinely unsettling how the interpretive nature of the faces he creates makes them oddly more scary

[cthulusauce]

I went to art school for a short period of my life, when I was studying Francis Bacon’s art, my professor showed me Olivier’s work. I really enjoy his work. Thank you for the video

[mischa]

I just want to know how he breathes under all that clay

[NathanJamesJerritze]

the scariest thing about his work is that he's french

[aaaduccs]

People like him makes me love art so much, thank u so much for covering this

[rabbitsrefuse]

I purchased a few of his prints a few years back and absolutely adore them. His art spoke to me from the first moment I saw a video. I am so happy to see you covering his work. I get tired of seeing him get what is essentially creepypasta status for his amazing performance art.

[charmicarmicat]

If been following Sazagan for seven ish years. If anyone else did this, I would think they’d be someone who just wants to be like a tiktok influencer or something like that.
These pieces he does with his face are insane and one of the most original ideas I’ve ever seen an artist do without it being insincere or hacked. His work reminds me of the German expressionism or something, I don’t know. I just really respect this guys work and I don’t know anyone else who could pull this off

[cristerosoul]

my uncle showed me this video when i was little a long long time ago and i thought it was a horror movie but now it’s weird seeing this now knowing it’s just an art piece.

[misspretty]

I remember when this was a viral video, so good to hear the actual background story.

[iivin]

It's ironic. He wanted to give his art this vague quality called life but the only reason it affects people is that it mimics the decay of death.

Let's rediscover the wheel and call it a dimensionally compressed sphereoid.

[Trench]

Anyone who says it's "just a man throwing clay on his face" probably also says "its just a guy putting paint on a canvas" when they look at a painter.

[superiormusic]

Sagazan is to sculpting what Igorrr is to music

[--t]

that video haunted me at 2am when i was 12...