A poignant visual record of the obsessive nature of failed love by a leading French contemporary artist. Over the last two decades, Sophie Calle has made it her business to follow, peek into, and illuminate the lives of people she barely knows. In Exquisite Pain, Calle turns her attention to a life-changing experience from her own past. This book is a visual record of the time in 1985 when a lover failed to meet Calle as promised in a hotel in New Delhi. Calle was devastated. As always, she kept everything from that journeyphotographs, ticket stubs, visas, and letterseach image rubber-stamped to mark the countdown to the fateful day of her heartbreak. On her return to Paris, she asked a group of friends to answer the question, "When did you most suffer?" Their stories of pain, each of them accompanied by a photograph, interplay with Calle's own story and daily reflections"It is now seventy-five days since the man I love left me"creating a testament to the heartache of romantic rejection. 130 illustrations, 71 in color.

Exquisite Pain

Arts & Photography

Calle, Sophie

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

A unique assembly of Calle's own thoughts and photographs of her belongings juxtaposed with objects from Sigmund Freud's personal collection, still kept in the house where he lived. ‘In February 1998, I was invited to create an exhibition entitled Appointment at a house at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, where Dr Freud lived and died. After having a vision of my wedding dress laid across Freud’s couch, I immediately accepted. I chose to display relics of my own life amongst the interior of Sigmund’s home.’―Sophie Calle A unique and beautifully produced assembly of Calle’s own texts and personal objects juxtaposed with objects from Sigmund Freud’s personal collection, still kept in his Hampstead house, Appointment features fragments from the artist’s own fascinating life story, characteristic texts that reveal intimate secrets and unravel some of Calle’s childhood memories as well as her adult relationships. Calle’s references to certain mementos and the emotionally charged events with which they are associated have many parallels to Freud’s own psychoanalytic theories and his passion for collecting. 80 illustrations, 50 in color

Appointment with Sigmund Freud

Reference

Artwork by Sophie Calle, Louise Lawler. Text by Trudy Wilner Stack.

Art Museum

Stack, Trudy Wilner

Lawler, Louise

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Center for Creative Photography

photo essay w/afterword essay by Baudrillard

Suite Venitienne/Please Follow Me

BAUDRILLARD, Jean

Bay Pr

"Appointment: Sophie Calle & Sigmund Freud" is a unique assembly of Calle's own texts and personal objects juxtaposed with objects from Sigmund Freud's collection, still kept in the house where he lived. Featured here are fragments from the artist's own fascinating life story; these characteristic texts reveal intimate secrets, unraveling some of her childhood memories as well as her adult relationships. Calle's references to certain mementos and the emotionally charged events with which they are associated parallel Freud's own psychoanalytical theories and his passion for collecting. "Appointment" is a compelling and beautifully designed follow-up to Calle's "Double Game," right down to the satin ribbon page marker. 5.5 x 7.5 inches, 80 color illustrations. Author Quote: "...I was invited to create an exhibition entitled "Appointment" in the house at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, where Dr. Freud lived, and died. After having a vision of my wedding dress laid across Freud's couch, I immediately accepted. I chose to display relics of my own life amongst the interior of Sigmund's home." -Sophie Calle 

Appointment: Sophie Calle and Sigmund Freud

Other Media

Violette Ltd

Fantômes (French Edition)

Actes-sud

DES HISTOIRES VRAIES (4ED) (PEINTURE, BD)

Des histoires vraies (édition 2018)

Photography & Video

Que faites-vous de vos morts

The latest edition of Sophie Calle's classic artist’s book features eight new tales 
First published in 1994 and regularly reissued and expanded since, True Stories returns for the seventh time with eight new stories. Calle’s projects have frequently drawn on episodes from her own life, but this book―part visual memoir, part meditation on the resonances of photographs and belongings―is as close as she has come to producing an autobiography, albeit one highly poetical and fragmentary, as is characteristic of her work. The tales―never longer than a page―are by turns lighthearted, humorous, serious, dramatic or cruel. Each is accompanied by an image; each offers a fragment of life. By turns serious, hilarious, dramatic or cruel, these real-life tales represent a form of work in progress recounting fragments of her life. 
Sophie Calle (born 1953) is an internationally renowned artist whose controversial works often fuse conceptual art and Oulipo-like constraints, investigatory methods and the plundering of autobiography. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Hayward Gallery and Serpentine, London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among others. She lives and works in Paris.

Sophie Calle: True Stories: 63 Short Stories: Seventh Edition

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