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Louisiana presents the work of Sophie Callepublished : June 09 2010
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The Danish Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana presents with the exposition Sophie Calle a serie of the key works of one of France’s most renowned, living artists, made during a period of thirty years, from 1979-2009.
The exposition includes the artist’s main work Take Care of Yourself (Prenez Soins de Vous), France’s contribution to the Venice Biennale in 2007, where it gained great international attention.
It has now been translated into English. Sophie Calle (b. 1953) often uses herself as a starting point for her narrative works and that is also the case with Take care of Yourself, where the foundation of the work is an email, in which the artist's boyfriend ends their relationship.
Calle has then invited a group of career minded women – right from a ballet dancer to a lawyer and in between – and asked them to give a personal interpret of the email, based on their professional skills. The results are both poetic, touching and humoristic statements, which altogether form a monumental installation.
Sophie Calle creates, with her photographs, texts and film installations, work that plays with our perception of reality, mixing private with the public, preferably involving journalism, anthropology and psychoanalysis, based on literature, her diary or a photo story. She creates what we could call realistic fiction.
Furthermore the exposition includes works like Sleepers from 1979, where the artist for a period lends out her own bed to people she knows– and don’t know, with the purpose of photographing them while sleeping. As well as the work Couldn’t Capture Death from 2007 where the artist through the film camera captures her mother’s last breath takes.
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LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY
Sophie Calle
From June 23th to October 24th 2010
www.louisiana.dk
Photo: Sophie Calle by Jean- Baptiste Mondino