Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. Her photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing. Since 2005 Calle has taught as a professor of film and photography at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. She has lectured at the University of California, San Diego in the Visual Arts Department. She has also taught at Mills College in Oakland, California. Exhibitions of Calle's work took place at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Videobrasil, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil; Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands. She represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin, exhibited Double-Blind (1992) and archived an essay dedicated to Calle and her work on their website. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for her publication My All (Actes Sud, 2016). In 2019 she was the recipient of the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship.

  • Title: Sophie Calle
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  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1953-10-09
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Sophie Calle Movies

  • 2013
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    Love Flesh

    Love Flesh

    6.5 2013 HD

    During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments, ordinary and extraordinary meetings. From a...

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  • 1983
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    Subterfuge

    Subterfuge

    5.3 1983 HD

    After committing a hit and run, a man insinuates himself into the lives of the victim's family.

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  • 1996
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    No Sex Last Night

    No Sex Last Night

    6.5 1996 HD

    Armed with camcorders, French artist Sophie Calle and American photographer Greg Shephard head West across the United States in his Cadillac...

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  • 1997
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    Contacts: Sophie Calle

    Contacts: Sophie Calle

    1 1997 HD

    Sophie Calle often defines herself as a "narrative" artist. Her photographs are items of evidence through which she tells stories that are both...

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  • 2005
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    Unfinished

    Unfinished

    1 2005 HD

    Upon receiving a series of photographs taken from an ATM security camera, Calle becomes involved in a perplexing fifteen-year investigation. She...

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  • 1996
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    No Sex Last Night

    No Sex Last Night

    6.5 1996 HD

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  • 2005
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    Unfinished

    Unfinished

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2004
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    Tout le monde en parle

    Tout le monde en parle

    4.2 2004 HD

    Host Guy A. Lepage brings together six to eight personalities from different milieus—sports, politics, stage productions and more—that...

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