An all-star memorial album for Souris the cat is the latest project from French artist Sophie Calle Wed 17 Oct 2018 12.11 EDT Last modified on Tue 23 Oct 2018 07.46 EDT Share on Facebook Sophie Calle, born in 1953, grew up in Paris. Stock photo and image search 1945 by Tate Images Stock photo and image search 20th by Tate Images Variously described as a conceptual artist, a photographer, a movie director, and even a detective, she has developed a practice that is instantly recognizable for its distinct narrative elements and frequent combination of images with text. | Tate Images. Sophie Calle—whose practice often incorporates writing, photography, installation, film, and more to explore intimacy, identity, interpersonal relationships, obsession, and vulnerability—could easily be considered one of the most significant Conceptual artists of the second half of the 20th century. This has led her to investigate patterns of behaviour using techniques akin to those of a private investigator, a psychologist, or a forensic scientist. Courtesy the artist and Tate. Sophie Calle Becomes an Artist. Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern, meets French artist Sophie Calle in her studio in south west Paris. She studied sociology under Jean Baudrillard at the University of Nanterre, after which the famed philosopher became her good friend. Further reading: Sophie Calle: M’as Tu Vue, exhibition catalogue, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 2003, reproduced pp.163-4 in colour Sophie Calle, Double Game, London 1999, pp.140-83, reproduced pp.180 and 182 in colour Hotel Hotel, exhibition catalogue, Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz 2003 Elizabeth Manchester June 2005 In each piece, a felt curtain embroidered with Calle’s writing conceals a hidden photograph behind it. Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present Sophie Calle: Because, an exhibition of new works on view for the first time in the U.S. The Hotel, Room 47, 1981. In presenting viewers with the text before the picture, Calle upends the usual order in which […] Sophie Calle, The Birthday Ceremony (Detail 3) 1998 Sophie Calle is fascinated by the interface between our public lives and our private selves. Her oncologist father, Robert Calle, was a renowned art collector and former director of the Nimes' Carré d'Art, a contemporary art museum. Sophie Calle was born into an intellectual and creative household in 1953 Paris, where she experienced an unconventional childhood. Sophie Calle is a French artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. Sophie Calle is an internationally renowned artist whose controversial works often fuse conceptual art and Oulipian-like constraints, investigatory methods and fictional constructs, the plundering of autobiography and the artful composition of self.