Sophie Calle

“I asked people to give me eight hours of their sleep. To come and sleep in my bed. For eight days, my room was to be a constantly occupied space. Twenty-seven people agreed. Sleepers came and went. Some even crossed paths. I took photographs every hour. I watched my guests sleep.”

Often employing methods of surveillance and exploring the idea of privacy in her work, Calle also utilizes “ready-made” images to address these themes. In her series Cash Machine, photographs are made from ATM video surveillance footage, and each work is exhibited as a sequence of two to eleven images.