Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle is a French artist who is very destined in her work because she seems to do art work around other peoples privet life, and has got her self in to quite so trouble doing so. After she left school, she spent seven years of traveling, and after returned to Paris and started her work about the city people and there life's. This is where most of the imspuration from her current work comes from, and what she mostly bases her work around.

Take Care of Yourself 

One of her most famous project is called 'Take Care Of Your Self' and it was about how Sophie's boyfriend dumps her by email and she takes the email and sends it to 107 different professional women and used the email in there job to use in her exhibition, for example; she sent it to be made into a cross word, it was shot by a marks- women, turned into a dance, acted out by an actress, and evaluated by a judge. The project was called 'Take Care Of Your Self' because that is how her boyfriend ended the email.

Crossword

Dance

I seem to really like this type of art because the whole thing is to do with an actually  life event, and then sending the message to people and them involving it with there work and then putting all of what they did to it back into one exhibition. I think the reason that she did this is because she works around peoples life but this one is involving not just her own life, but over hundred other women's life as well, and she might have been trying to get back at her ex as well.

The Blind

Another big project that she did was called 'The Blind', and this was where she got 22 blind people and asked them what they thought the definition of beauty was, and then went to photograph what they say and then put what the blind people actually said. One of them said, on the Musee Rodin, there is a sculpture of a naked women, and this person knew what the women looked like because she had used her hands to make a picture in her mind. She said, 'In the Rodin Museum, there is a naked women with very erotic breasts and a terrific ass. She is sweet, she is beautiful.'

I also like this project because it's interesting to think about what blind people think is ugly, or colorful, and if they have an imagination, and it makes you think about how lucky you are to be able to see something that is quite ordinary and everyday, but someone who has never seen it would think that it was the definition of something because it must be that good.

The Shadow

Sophie also did something called 'The Shadow' and this was where she paid someone to follow her around for a day so that she could go to memorable places privately to her, and the investigator take photos of her in that place and then he would document about what he thought of the place. For example, she went to the park where she had her first kiss and that would have been a special place to her, but for in investigator, it was just an ordinary park, and it's not that the park is important to Sophie, it's the meaning and what happened there.

I like the idea of this because, there could be two people looking, and at the same place, but it could be more important to one person than the other, and that is because of personal experience, and i like how that can change something for only you personally.

The Hotel

She also did a project where she got a job as a chambermaid at a French hotel and took photos of the peoples in the hotels posietions, there luggage, the bed before it had been made, any other objects that they had left in the room, and other day to day objects that could possibly tell what the people who were staying in the room where like. It took her just under two years to complete and finalize the whole thing, " For the Hotel I spent one year to find the hotel i would use, I spent three month going thought the text and writing it, three month going through the photographs and one day deciding on what size and frame i would use."