In a video made in connection with her 2026 exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Sophie Calle reflects on a life and practice shaped by intimacy, absence, and a persistent urge to transform personal experience into art. Speaking from her home, Calle traces the origins of her distinctive method, which blends photography and text with autobiographical narrative and conceptual rigor.
The interview highlights Calle’s longstanding practice of turning lived experience into artistic material. “Anything bad that happens to me, I immediately go like a greedy dog, saying, what can I take of that?” she notes, framing adversity as a creative catalyst. This impulse underpins some of her most well-known works, including projects born from chance encounters and emotional upheaval. Reflecting on the origins of her career, she recounts how an early photographic experiment unexpectedly led to recognition: “In a way, I became an artist without having decided it.”
Watch the video here.