Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle (FR, b.1953), is an accomplished and renowned French artist whose works can be seen as a series of rituals, blurring the boundaries between the intimate and the public, reality and fiction, and art and life while leaving room for chance. Calle depicts both human vulnerability and folly, often with herself at the center. Sophie Calle is alternately described as a writer, a conceptual artist, a photographer, a æovie director, or even a detective. She often explores the investigation methods, and her praxis, usually, consists of the association between photography and text.

Sophie Calle has exhibited at most major art museums in the world since the late 1970s, including Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Musée Picasso, Paris, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, and the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo, Japan. In 2007 she represented France at the Venice Biennale and in 2010 she received the prestigious Hasselblad Award from the Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg, Sweden.