LES PÉPITES DE L’ARTO

Sophie Calle (b Paris, France, 1953) uses the mediums of photography, video, film, books, text, and performance to pursue her sociological and psychological investigations In 2017, Calle was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for My All (Actes Sud, 2016), a retrospective book of

The Excess Of Elements In The Chromatic Diet

Sophie Calle displays The Chromatic Diet in her book Double Game, which is the result of her collaboration with the writer Paul Auster Double Game is a colorful scrapbook that consists of torn out pages from Auster’s novel Leviathan, photographs, lists, written descriptions, and other observations by Calle The collaboration was initiated

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Calle has never been preoccupied with presenting clear-cut or factual "documentations n Instead, using a disarmingly straightforward voice, she offers a conceptual and ambiguous hybrid of portraiture, performance, and storytelling that leaves At 3:20 the subject takes a drink at the outdoor café in the Tuileries gardens and writes

SOPHIE CALLE Because - Fraenkel Gallery

SOPHIE CALLE Because Fraenkel Gallery 49 Geary Street, San Francisco January 23 – March 21, 2020 Opening reception and walkthrough: Saturday, January 25, 2020, 1-4pm Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present Sophie Calle: Because, an exhibition of new works on view for the first time in the U S

Delegated Performance: Outsourcing Authenticity

his flammable sculpture Fiat Lux for 24 hours (1979), or Sophie Calle hiring a detective to follow her (Detective, 1980) The difference between these and more recent examples is one of degree: the extent to which the identity of the hired laborer becomes a central and visible component of the work of art

FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY

works of Sophie Calle and Trent Parke, while the work of artists such as Atul Dodiya and Adel Abidin is underpinned by the idea of collective memory The relationship between photography and performance is evident in the whimsical works of Steve Carr and Ceal Floyer, and spectacle abounds in the large-scale photographs and installations

The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art Explored in

• Selections from French conceptual artist Sophie Calle’s series Les Aveugles (The Blind) (1986), which presents photo- and text-based installations based on the artist’s interviews with a dozen non-sighted individuals • “Untitled” (Water) (1995) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, an interactive work made up of strands of

Christina Sharpe 2017CV - Tufts University

and solo performance, “The Artist is Present”; to reading Sophie Calle’s “The First Time,” alongside Taryn Simon’s “Paperwork and the Will of Capital: An Account of Flora as Witness”; to Charles Gaines’ “Manifestos” (speeches and manifestos by Douglass, Malcom X, and others) alongside Melvin