Take Care of Yourself

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NERI: That’s a provocative criticism to make to an artist who has always worked with words and images. You are a distinctive writer, much admired in literary circles. It became almost an obsession. I wanted to be there when she died. I didn't want to miss her last word, her last smile. As I knew I had to shut my eyes to sleep, because the agony was very long, there were a risk I might not be there. I put a camera there, thinking if she gave a last jump or start, a last word, at least I'd have it on film."

Calle's first artistic work was The Sleepers ( Les Dormeurs), a project in which she invited passers-by to occupy her bed. [11] Some were friends, or friends of friends, and some were strangers to her. She served them food and photographed them every hour. CALLE: I made the film of my mother’s death really because of Robert Storr. He invited me to show in the Italian Pavilion at the same time that I was occupying the French Pavilion. Initially, for the French Pavilion, I had the idea to work on absence, perhaps because of the nostalgia ofVenice—about missing persons, missing things . . . Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo, where a group of Conceptual writers used similar constraints in literature. Devising "rules" for her own self-compelled games was a regular starting point for her explorations into the human condition. Exhibitions - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28 . Retrieved 2017-07-21. With such a dramatic and eclectic family, it's no surprise that Calle's life and relationships would become the central subject of many of her works. The artist's childhood disregard for social and personal boundaries would evolve and become evermore evident in her art projects.Image cover: Sophie Calle, from “Take Care of Yourself,” French Intelligence Officer, Louise (2007). courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery. One Response to “Take care of yourself”

The RPS Annual Awards 2019". rps.org. Archived from the original on 2019-09-05 . Retrieved 2019-09-06. Calle will continue to deal with what annoys and hurts her by turning it into a game. Her latest project is spotting mistakes in journalists' articles about her art. "I thought to myself, maybe there's material in taking the errors and enacting the works just as they are described by the journalists? So if a journalist mistakenly said I'd done a project with deaf people, I'd have to do a project with deaf people."In the case of multiple bidders placing the same maximum bid, the first person to place the maximum Every bid submitted is treated as a maximum bid. You should always bid the maximum you are willing to NERI: What was it like to work simultaneously on Take Care of Yourself and Pas Pu Saisir la Mort [ Couldn’t Catch Death, 2007], the film you made of your mother’s death—one a very sociable work, the other deeply introspective? CALLE: I have my own sentiment—I don’t need that of others. This work was not about revenge. Even so, all the women spoke from their own points of view and, probably, many of them had been abandoned by men at some point in their lives.