Sophie Calle: Série Noire

Encasing found pulp novels in vitrines, Calle recontextualizes lurid paperbacks with a series of questions ruminating on grief.  Following formal and thematic motifs present throughout the artist’s oeuvre, Série Noire is textual and investigative–a playful series that knowingly embraces kitsch.

Color image of a white paperback book, framed in a white box with a yellow banner of text across the glass of the frame
Color image of a paperback book, framed in a white box with a yellow banner of text across the glass of the frame
Color image of a black paperback book, framed in a white box with a yellow banner of text across the glass of the frame
A found book reading "Farewell My Lovely" in a white box, with a yellow band of text over the top.
Color image of a paperback book, framed in a white box with a yellow banner of text across the glass of the frame

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