Sammy SteinVisages du Temps

“In 17 stories of varying length, through settings that are as many proposals for installations, sculptures, images and concepts, Sammy Stein offers to wander through imaginary museums (“The Turtle Museum”, “Archives of the Crystal Museum”), to visit dreamed collections (“Faces of Time”, “Multimonde”), to pay homage to an obscure artist whose work has almost entirely disappeared (“Salut Marcel”), summons memories of a fictional place and its artefacts (“Gallery 128”, “Return to the Centre”), describes an impossible work (“Fireworks”), observes the process of transforming one form into another (“Moving Sculpture”, “Camouflage”, “Bye bye Dada”), and even conjures up fantastic recipes (“The Great Restaurant”, episodes 1 and 2) “