Sophie Calle: Because

This work is part of Calle’s ongoing exploration of the relationship between narrative, memory, and photography, and mixes humor and melancholy with her particular eye for irony. In each piece, a felt curtain embroidered with Calle’s writing conceals a hidden photograph behind it. In presenting viewers with the text before the picture, Calle upends the usual order in which images are read.

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Black and white photograph of mustachioed man at ATM machine

Sophie Calle: Cash Machine
A detail of book cover showing a woman embracing a man. The book has text overlaid on top that reads "How do you deal with your dead?"

Sophie Calle: Série Noire
A framed photograph of the photographer's reflection in the surface of a headstone

Sophie Calle: Autobiographies