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.