Sophie Calle: Catalogue Raisonné of the Unfinished

This series collects photographs, handwritten notes, comic books, and other relics of artworks in progress, each paired with a short text describing how the piece Calle had originally imagined came to (not) be. A red stamp across the texts pronounces the artist’s reason for rejecting the project.

Color image of an artwork including a text panel and a color photograph of the sky that has the word 'oui' written out in the sky
Color photograph of the sky that has the word 'oui' written out in clouds along with 'YES' etched out on the glass of the piece
Color image of a white framed text panel with a red stamp of text reading 'Infernal'
Color image of an artwork consisting of a white framed text panel over a suite of six comic books in metal frames on a white wall
Color image of a suite of six comic books in metal frames on a white wall
Color image of a white framed text panel with a red stamp of text reading 'What's the Point?'
Color image of an artwork including a text panel and a photograph of door with text overlayed against a white wall
Color image of a white framed text panel with a red stamp of text reading 'Too Late'
Color image of an artwork including a text panel, a triptych of the artist seated with three different figures, and a stack of paper encased in a plexi box
Color image of a triptych depicting three color photographs of two seated figures at a table
Color image of a white framed text panel with a red stamp of text reading 'Not Exhilarating'
Color image of an artwork including a text panel and a framed newspaper graphic against a white wall
Color image of a framed newspaper graphic framed in black
Color image of a white framed text panel with a red stamp of text reading 'Suspended'

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Five black and white photographs of a figure sleeping in bed accompanied with hand written and typed text detailing the experience framed in black

Sophie Calle: The Sleepers
Black and white photograph of mustachioed man at ATM machine

Sophie Calle: Cash Machine
A framed photograph of the artist holding a child to her breast, inside a wooden box

Sophie Calle: Because

Sophie Calle: Autobiographies