This talk is offered in conjuction with the North American premiere at DHC/ART of Sophie Calle’s exhibition Take Care of Yourself, created for the Venice Biennale in 2007. The exhibition will be held from July 4 to October 19, 2008.
Sophie Calle is a pre-eminent French artist whose conceptual and poetic works obscure the borders between private and public, art and life. She often employs self-established guide-lines, questions or rituals to transform her life into image and text-based works.
She acts as a voyeur in Les Dormeurs (1979) and L’Hôtel (1981), the pursueur in La Suite Vénitienne (1983) or shares her love sorrows with others in Douleur Exquise (1984-2003) and her most recent exhibition, Take Care of Yourself (2007). Her experiments with different forms of photographic documentation including archival images, street photography, surveillance imagery and portraiture are combined with texts and stories that become compelling works which reside wistfully between fiction and reality.
From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
SAT[Society for arts and technology], 1195 St Laurent boulevard
FREE ADMISSION – Limited nimber of seats
The talk will be offered in french