The Eruv

Sophie Calle

1996

Installation showing set of eight photographs arranged on back wall, and table in foreground with fourteen photographs and fourteen texts lying flat.
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Sophie Calle

b. 1953

French photographer and conceptual artist Sophie Calle is best known for works combining texts and photographs to explore emotional life and human relationships. Her voyeuristic techniques include following a stranger through the streets of Paris and photographing him, and hiring a private detective to follow and photograph her. Calle’s work has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Centre Georges Pompidou; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. She lives in Paris.

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