Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle ( born October 9, 1953 in Paris ) is a French artist. Her work includes photography, installations and conceptual art.
Life and work
After working as a barmaid and dancer Sophie Calle took off in the 1970s, a world tour that took them to Lebanon, Mexico and the United States. For seven years she traveled the world. 1978, during a stay in California, they began to photograph.
In 1979 she returned to Paris and soon launched their first art project: In order to get used again to Paris, she began to follow strangers. Disguised in a wig and raincoat and equipped with a 35 mm camera and a notebook they pursued their "unknown city guide " by a city in which she felt lonely and strange. The result of their study is documented and issued based on photographs and written reports.
Finally, she invites 45 people a (friends, acquaintances, unknown ) to sleep in her bed and be there to photograph her. So their first job created The sleepers (1979 ), the first publication of its " incredible -looking, adventurous burglaries in own and others' privacy. "
The desire to invade the privacy of another, is echoed in their investigations of her own life as an artist. For the work "The Shadow" she asked in April 1981 her mother to hire a private detective to tail her. The photos and the report of the detective, as well as their own notes and additional photographs of a friend, who in turn followed the detective, has subsequently been exhibited and published.
In the project " Hotel " Sophie Calle worked as a maid in a hotel in Venice, which she could explore the objects, documents the hotel guests. During the action " Room with a view " (2003) she spent the night in a bed on the top of the Eiffel Tower and invited 28 people one to read her bedtime stories, to keep them awake.
The Centre Pompidou put together a showcase, which was shown from September 10 to December 13, 2004 at the Martin- Gropius-Bau.
In your post at the French Pavilion which takes place in the summer of 2007 Biennale di Venezia Sophie Calles ' inspiration was close inspired by her love life. Thus the message of the separation of her love companion, the French author Grégoire Bouillier, from the foundation of her work " soin de vous Prenez ". Sophie Calle was sent to the bad news quite modern by e -mail. According to the artist, she did not know what to say. The message ended with the sentence: " Take care of yourself. " Then the text was interpreted by 107 women, including a judge, a fortune teller, a psychoanalyst, a Bharatanatyam dancer.
2002 Calle was awarded the internationally prestigious award for Photography " SPECTRUM " the Foundation of Lower Saxony. Sophie Calle was the model for the figure of Mary in the novel Leviathan by Paul Auster. She was awarded the 2010 Swedish Hasselblad Foundation Award, which is awarded by the Hasselblad Foundation and is endowed with 100,000 euros.
Sophie Calle lives and works in Malakoff near Paris and in New York.