For seven years, Le Turk has been constructing a world-sized cardboard universe: he peoples it with characters that are sometimes grotesque, sometimes sublime, never cynical. Then he tells them the beginning of a story, plays them the first chords of a melody and slowly steps back to sit behind his camera. A singular alchemy then occurs: the stage comes alive, the walls of the photo studio disappear and this little world begins to move. The story becomes clearer, the melody accelerates, it gains in speed, in intensity, in accuracy. And when the music becomes a symphony, Le Turk freezes the scene in one of his photographs. He has just recently released his retrospective book, “Opera Mundi”, already available on Amazon. He retraces the last 7 years of work of a 32-year-old French artist who lives and works in Leipzig. The Turk builds his life-size sets in which he stages funny characters in order to create real photographic tableaux.