BECAUSE - THE BLIND BY SOPHIE CALLE
Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, USA
In 1986, French artist Sophie Calle introduced herself to people attending an institute for the blind in Paris and asked if she might speak with them on the subject of beauty. Calle photographed each person she interviewed and also assembled photographs of one to three scenes or things they named as beautiful. The conversations took a deeply personal nature, as Calle made clear in excerpts she typed up and framed alongside the photographs. The final work, comprising 23 conversations and more than 80 images, debuted at a Los Angeles gallery in 1989.
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August 27 - January 23, 2022
