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Sophie Calle: The Sleepers

Sophie Calle: The Sleepers

Calle, Sophie
Ramadan, Emma

Hardcover

Conceptual ArtIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $48.00

ISBN10: 1938221346
ISBN13: 9781938221347
Publisher: Siglio Press
Published: Dec 17 2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Calle's seminal 1979 series of people sleeping in her bed: now in English

In one of Sophie Calle's first artistic experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances and strangers to sleep in her bed. Twenty-seven people agreed, among them a baker, a babysitter, an actor, a journalist, a seamstress, a trumpet player and three painters. Calle photographed them awake and asleep, secretly recording any private conversations once the door closed. She served each a meal, and, if they agreed, she subjected them to a questionnaire that probed their personal predilections, habits and dreams as well as their interpretations of the act of sleeping in her bed: a curiosity, a game, an artwork, or--as Calle intended it--a job. The result, comprising her first exhibition in 1979, was a grid of 198 photographs and short texts.

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