La visite guidée. The hotel, room 46.
La filature (the shadow). In 'The Shadow', (left) although Sophie Calle knew she would be followed and photographed as she went about her daily life in Paris, she had no idea which day the detective would be following her.She kept an itinerary of her own movements and wrote a description of what happened each day as well as making a series of photographs of what she saw herself.
These two contrasting points of view of the same period of time - the detectives' report and photos and her own diary and self-portaits - were exhibited as the final piece of work.
'Ultimately, my excitement was stronger than my hesitation' … Sophie Calle.
Sophie Calle is a French artist who works with photographs and performances, placing herself in situations almost as if she and the people she encounters were fictional. She also imposes elements of her own life onto public places creating a personal narrative where she is both author and character. She has been called a detective and a voyeur and her pieces involve serious investigations as well as natural curiousity.
In 1980 Calle made a piece called 'Suite Vénitienne' in which she followed a man she had met at a party to Venice and continued to follow and photograph him there for two weeks.
The Hotel
A year later she returned to Venice where she got a temporary job as a chambermaid. She made a piece of work about her imagined ideas of who the hotel guests were, based on their personal belongings.
A year later she returned to Venice where she got a temporary job as a chambermaid. She made a piece of work about her imagined ideas of who the hotel guests were, based on their personal belongings.
In 1983, Calle produced her most controversial work of art, Address Book. She had found an address book in the street, photocopied it and sent the original back to its owner. Then she set about ringing the numbers to assemble a portrait of the man. She also took photographs of other people engaged in his favourite activities. When the newspaper Libération published the results, the man, documentary film-maker Pierre Baudry, threatened to sue for invasion of privacy, only backing down when the paper ran a nude photograph of Calle. Given that The Striptease was already published, this sounds like rather feeble revenge. "He was trying to be very aggressive. He disliked what I did."
Take Care of Yourself (2007) was prompted by an email Calle received from a lover ending their relationship. It ended: "Take care of yourself." Calle invited 107 women to analyse the email.
Calle's works often focus on the nature of desire, and on the relationships between the artist/observer and the objects of her investigations, as in her sole video projectDouble-Blind. Produced in collaboration with Gregory Shepard, this conceptual road movie was released theatrically in Europe as a feature film entitled No Sex Last Night.
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