Friday, 6 May 2011

Artist of the Week: Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle is a French photographer whose work investigates intimacy and identity. There is a voyeuristic nature to some of her images and it is said that she once followed a man from Paris to Venice photographing him without his knowledge all the while. She enjoys investigating the lives of others and turns herself into a private investigator to do this.

My favourite of Calle's work is the series 'The Hotel', where she obtains a job at a hotel in Venice and proceeds to photograph the contents of the room in between cleaning. She is giving a sense of identity to these people that even she has never met by exploring this deeply personal and intimate space of theirs. (All Photographs property of Sophie Calle)

Room 47

Room 28

Room 29

Room 44

And then of course there is the week she ate chromatic food each day, she was modeling herself after a character in a novel by Paul Auster, who was modeled after her.







Calle loves to experiment with her own life and the lives of others turning everything into art and I am left wondering what she will do next.

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