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Sophie Calle was born in France. The daughter of a fine art collector who never thought she was going to come good. She seems to possess that very French peculiarity of being able to break down personal barriers and embrace the whole of her subject without barriers. She has been described as a detective and a voyeur. Her work involves serious investigations in combination with natural curiousity. Many of her projects have gained her the reputation as being a Conceptual Artist although she never set out with this title in mind.
Suite Veintienne 1980
In 1980 Calle created a collection of work 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.
"...These works had involved me so much in the act of following that I wanted, in a certain way, to reverse these relationships. So I asked my mother to hire a private detective to follow me, without him knowing that I had arranged it, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence."
(Date Accessed: 13th April 2012)
Sleepers 1979
“I asked people to give me a few hours of their sleep. To come and sleep in my bed. To let themselves be looked at and photographed.” Sophie Calle
Her aim was to keep the bed constantly occupied, which she managed for nearly nine days.
References
http://www.iniva.org/dare/themes/space/calle.html (No Date) (Accessed 13th April 2012)
Steidl. (2011) Sophie Calle: “I asked for the moon and I got it”, The Guardian, Culture, 9th January 2011 [Online]. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jan/09/sophie-calle
(Accessed 10thApril 2012).
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