Sophie calle has been described as a conceptual artist, a photographer, a movie director or even. Perhaps her most contentious work, address book 1983 was inspired by an address book. In the late 1970s, her career began when she photographed the. Sophie calle is a french artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. Gabrielle moser, workingthrough public and private labour. The legendary work in which artist and provocateur sophie calle finds an address book on the street in paris. Sophie calle, the chromatic diet 1998 research sophie calles mixture of artistic strategy with daily life is one of the conceptional leads in photography. The images below show images of the chromatic diet. In les aveugles the blind, created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their representation of beauty. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to proviede photographic evidence of my existence sophie calle. Sophie calles voyeuristic fascination with the lives of others inspired the hotel, a project she executed in the early 1980s while posing as a chambermaid at a hotel in venice, italy. With editorial assistance by robert violette for the englishlanguage edition published in 2007 by actes sud.
Sophie calle is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. In the early nineteeneighties, the french artist sophie calle, who is known. Lhotel calle turns the viewer or reader into an accomplice of her voyeurism filling them, too, with the urge to move unobserved through anothers private sphere. In this remarkable artists book, french conceptual artistprovocateur sophie calle presents 107 outside interpretations of a breakup email she received from her.
Sophie calle born 9 october 1953 is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. In the upper part, the title room 47 is printed below a colour photograph of elegantly carved wooden twin headboards behind a bed covered in rich brown satin. Variously described as a conceptual artist, a photographer, a movie director, and even a detective, she has developed a practice that is instantly recognizable for its distinct narrative elements and frequent combination of images with text. Sophie calle has 50 books on goodreads with 8121 ratings. Below it, three columns of italic text are diary entries describing findings in the hotel room between sunday 22 february 1981 and tuesday 24. Mas tu vue, exhibition catalogue, centre georges pompidou, paris 2003, reproduced pp. Taking stock of her entire oeuvre, this set of postcards functions as a beautiful portfolio of calles work, as well as a new investigation of it, in an appropriately nomadic format. Suivez sophie calle et explorez sa bibliographie sur sa page dauteur sophie calle sur. Published in 1984, sophie calles lhotel is a perfect book. Last november, the french artist sophie calle was in london to receive the.
The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calles oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Sophie calles the address book, an excerpt the new yorker. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, calle copied the pages before returning it to its anonymous owner. Comme vous lavez vu, jallais mal tous ces derniers temps. Sophie calle published the photographs within the diarylike report of her observations, in the book entitled ecrit sur limage. In rachel, monique, sophie calle eulogizes her mother. Born in paris, calle traveled for seven years after completing her studies.
Sophie calle is a contemporary french conceptual artist known for her explorations of personal relationships and chance events. This is a twopart framed work comprising photographs and text. Sophie calle and the san francisco bay area missing and the related programming add a new chapter to sophie calles special relationship with the san francisco bay area. Calles work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the french literary movement of the 1960s known as oulipo.
When she returned to paris in 1979, she began a series of projects to familiarize herself with the people of the city, through which she hoped to construct identities by offering documentary proof in the form of photographs. Sophie calle es una artista francesa nacida en 1953. Sophie calle was the recipient of the 2010 hasselblad award for photography and the 2017 icp infinity award. With blind, french conceptual artist sophie calle born 1953 revisits three earlier works constructed around the idea of blindness. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. My all finds the artist experimenting with yet another mediumsthe postcard set.
Each work has its own system, a rule book to be followed, like a game. Calle s work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the french literary movement of the 1960s known as oulipo. One of calles first projects to generate public controversy was address book 1983. A controversial figure as well as one of frances leading conceptual artists, sophie calle explores her own psychological and emotional terrain in multimedia works, probing ideas of control, freedom, gender, intimacy, and distance in human relationships. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. True stories by sophie calle and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Sophie calle, the chromatic diet 1998 research daniel. See all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Actes sud 2007 215 x 305 mm 420 pages, livrets, 3 dvds, couverture rigide. In 1981, calle took a job as a chambermaid at a venice hotel and secretly photographed the rooms in the absence of the guests.
Hardback, 424 pages with 4 cds and two small booklets, 5 illustrations 29. Sophie calle french pavilion 52nd venice biennale 2007. Rachel, monique, sophie calles installation at the episcopal church of the heavenly rest, examines her mothers life and death through photographs, diary entries and a deathbed film. When chosen to exhibit in the french pavilion at the 2007 venice biennale, sophie calle put an ad in the newspaper to recruit an enthusiastic person to act as exhibition curator. Sophie calle born 9 october 1953 is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. When taking the photo out, we find a sign that reads cette porte doit etre.
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