Erwin Wurm's sculpture is a field of infinite possibilities, albeit always the result of very simple, yet extremely humorous paradoxical operations. It was with the series - One minute sculptures
, which began in 1996/97, that this Austrian artist began to explore sculpture in relation to everyday life, and through performance, drawing, video, installation, text and photography. In this research, mutual reversibilities between subject and object emerge, brought into play by processes of anthropomorphisation and objectification, instilling sculptural qualities in the most essential functional objects of everyday life.

This manoeuvrer is itself central to the photograph - Samoa
, which belongs to the series - Hotel Rooms
, from 2001, in which the artist revisits the idea of temporary sculpture, which he has dealt with several times in his work. During 2001, Erwin Wurm travelled to countries in Oceania and Asia and photographed the hotel rooms where he stayed. In this hotel room, located on the islands of Samoa, the furniture and objects were used by the artist as readymades and rearranged according to a new logic. The sense of functionality and the horizontal arrangement that the objects in a room normally assume are inverted here and stacked up to the ceiling. In this strategy of defamiliarisation, the pile of objects generates a sculptural configuration that resembles a totem. The hotel room becomes a studio and the functional object becomes a work of art. De-sacralisation is the cult of art