The Inquisitive Sophie Calle
Madeleine Schwartz writes: Sophie Calle, ‘who at 62 is one of France’s most celebrated and well-known artists, has spent her career following others. She is said to be intrusive or invasive in her work, which usually consists of fabricated encounters between the artist and others. She has photographed people sleeping in her bed, snooped around hotel rooms to document their occupants, hired strangers to interpret the letters of past lovers. In her most recent exhibition, “Rachel, Monique,” she projected a film recording her mother’s last moments, while voices read out selections from the dead woman’s diary.’
