Sophie Calle

The book is an introduction to the acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle and contains over 100 reproductions of her most important works. Sophie Calle works as a writer, photographer, and installation and conceptual artist, and her art is characterized by experimental rules, a focus on human vulnerability, and explorations of identity and intimacy. She is especially known for her works where she follows strangers and explores their private lives. The book also includes a critical introduction and a complete bibliography.

You can currently experience the exhibition Something Missing? at Louisiana. The exhibition was created in close collaboration with Sophie Calle herself and presents seven of the artist's major, prominent series of works, as well as a number of other works. In total, the exhibition consists of more than 300 individual pieces – photographs, texts, and video. Sophie Calle (born 1953) has been a leading figure in visual art for five decades with her original work, which tackles life's big questions and universal human emotions – love, loss, guilt, fear, embarrassment, etc. – with warmth, humor, and poetry in a stringent, conceptual language of form.