Sophie Calle & Jean-Paul Demoule: The Elevator Resides in 501
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Author: Calle, Sophie
Between 1978 and 1981, Sophie Calle went on an exploration of the then abandoned Hôtel du Palais d'Orsay. She found customer reception cards, old telephones, diaries and messages; now, more than 40 years later, room 501 has disappeared and an elevator has taken its place. At the invitation of the Musée d’Orsay curator, Calle returned. The work reconstructs the artist’s archive of photography, letters, invoices and other daily items which bring a forgotten past back to life. To provide commentary on her discoveries, Sophie Calle enlisted the award-winning French archaeologist Jean-Paul Demoule, who writes a series of texts combining fact and fiction. All of this evidence has been assembled to create an art object that resembles an investigation notebook. Sophie Calle is an internationally renowned artist whose controversial works explore the tensions between the observed, the reported, the secret and the unsaid. She has mounted solo shows at major museums around the world and represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2007. She lives and works in Paris.
ISBN 9782330159481. Actes Sud. hb. 392 pages. 150 colour ills. 27 x 22 cm.
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Between 1978 and 1981, Sophie Calle went on an exploration of the then abandoned Hôtel du Palais d'Orsay. She found customer reception cards, old telephones, diaries and messages; now, more than 40 years later, room 501 has disappeared and an elevator has taken its place. At the invitation of the Musée d’Orsay curator, Calle returned. The work reconstructs the artist’s archive of photography, letters, invoices and other daily items which bring a forgotten past back to life. To provide commentary on her discoveries, Sophie Calle enlisted the award-winning French archaeologist Jean-Paul Demoule, who writes a series of texts combining fact and fiction. All of this evidence has been assembled to create an art object that resembles an investigation notebook. Sophie Calle is an internationally renowned artist whose controversial works explore the tensions between the observed, the reported, the secret and the unsaid. She has mounted solo shows at major museums around the world and represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2007. She lives and works in Paris.
ISBN 9782330159481. Actes Sud. hb. 392 pages. 150 colour ills. 27 x 22 cm.
available