BIRTHDAY CEREMONY (1986) (1 / 2), 1980-93, 170 × 85 × 48 cm
BIRTHDAY CEREMONY (1986) (2 / 2), 1980-93, 170 × 85 × 48 cm
Chez moi, c’est beau (The Blind )1986
My mourning (The Blind)1986
My son (The Blind)1986
Sheeps, Delon, my mother (The Blind )1986
The white cane (The Blind)1986
The view of my life (The Autobiographies)2010
Last seen ... Degas, drawing1991
Code hexadécimal (Prenez soin de vous)2007, 190 × 144 cm
SOURIS CALLE (DELUXE EDITION) (Produced by Perrotin)2018, 45 × 45 × 10 cm
Sophie Calle, born 1953 in Paris, France, lives and works in Malakoff, France.

A notoriously controversial figure of the European scene and one of France’s leading conceptual artists to date, Sophie Calle dedicated her career to the creative exploration of personal relationships, investigating both psychological and emotional terrains of all of us. With such goals in mind, she utilized multimedia works and counts mostly on conceptual and performance-like projects to get her messages from and across the audience. Sophie also relies heavily on photography, film and text as these practices seem to allow her the most speedy approach and the rawest artistic punch. All of Calle’s artworks are meant to provoke a strong emotional reaction in the viewer, as well as to probe the ideas of control, vulnerability, freedom, gender, intimacy and distance in human relationships. Still active to this day, Sophie continues to live and work in the City of Light, tirelessly exploring the themes of intimacy, identity and the relation between the artist and her subjects.

In 2007 she represented France at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico, the Bibliothéque nationale de France, Paris; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Musée d'Art Moderne de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; De Appel, Amsterdam; the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Hayward Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Serpentine Gallery, London, and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. Her work is held in prestigious museum collections that include: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Guggenheim; Tate Gallery, London, UK; Los Angeles County Museum, L.A., USA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection.


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