The perfect primer on acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle. Sophie Calle is a French writer
photographer installation artist and conceptual artist. Her work is distinguished by its use
of arbitrary sets of constraints and frequently depicts human vulnerability and examines
identity and intimacy. She is renowned for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and
investigate their private lives which she has deployed in her acclaimed works Suite Venitienne
The Hotel and Address Book. She has had major exhibitions all over the world including at the
2007 Venice Biennale the Whitechapel Gallery in London and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
in Denmark and has worked closely with the writer Paul Auster. The Guardian called her 'the
Marcel Duchamp of dirty laundry' and she was among the names in Blake Gopnik's list 'The 10
Most Important Artists of Today' with Gopnik arguing 'It is the unartiness of Calle's work -
its refusal to fit any of the standard pigeonholes or over anyone's sofa - that makes it
deserve space in museums.'
