Recently I went to see the Sophie Calle exhibit at the Whitechapel Gallery. I found her project quite mesmerizing. Calle's latest peice "take care of yourself' used a personal email that she recieved from her partner ending their relationship and had it interpreted by 107 women who all are professionals in their field of work. Each used their knowledge to analyse the letter, achieving what came to be a very interesting combination of results. Included in some of the interpretations were women expressing the letter through dance and other mediums on camera. This performance element of the exhibit was particularly effective......
After visiting this exhibit I became really interested in Sophie Calles work. She has spent the last 30 years documenting social interactions often turning real life into something quite fictional. I think the main attraction to her work for me is how it meets the voyeuristic needs of the average person, most people are intrigued by other peoples lives. For example for three months she got a job as a maid in a hotel and used the opportunity to look through and photograph peoples personal belongings. By looking at the mundane and normal objects that most people own she created idea's from her own imagination about who the people were.
Photographs from the project "The Hotel"
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