- Self-taught artist and writer
- Conceptual Photography
- Text Panels
- Investigative Intervention
Sophie Calle creates works from following strangers, investigating private lives, staging personal rules and combining photographs with written narratives. Her practice treats intimacy, absence and surveillance as structures for storytelling.
Photography; text; performance
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
Sophie Calle in "Between Worlds" – Season 12 | Art21
Art2113 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Becoming Sophie Calle: “Sometimes you suffer, and it offers you a boulevard of pleasure.”
Louisiana Channel27 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Artist Sophie Calle: “In my youth, losing one year didn’t exist.”
Louisiana Channel6 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- 1980Suite Vénitienne
- 1983The Address Book
- 1981The Hotel
- 1979The Sleepers
- 2007Take Care of Yourself
- 1984–2003Exquisite Pain
- 1986The Blind
- 1988 onwardTrue Stories
- 2014Rachel, Monique
- 2011Voir la mer
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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