Jan Samyn | Storyteller
The Belgian artist Jan Samyn (Kortrijk, West Flanders) is a pre-eminent storyteller. He is constantly writing, reading, drawing and coming up with new ideas. As he writes, he sketches imaginary machines based on a labyrinthine order of words, images, symbols and colours. It is in that complexity that he prefers to hide, as an eternal nomad, restlessly on a quest. Samyn has kept his studio in Maastricht since 2013, which also serves as the starting point for the world tour of his project Ma Machine d´Emotions.
The story
Ma Machine d’Émotions
Ma Machine d´Emotions is the story of a man wrestling with how to express his emotions who then builds a gigantic, unbelievably complex machine in which he conceals a special emotion that only she for whom it is intended will be able to discover: a secret message meant for one particular person hidden amidst the organised chaos of 523 different emotions.
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Upcoming exhibitions, past exhibitions, press articles and new developments.
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Past exhibitions
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