Les Dormeurs Sophie Calle

11 1 16 x 8 9 16 in.

Les dormeurs sophie calle. Available for sale from art mûr sophie calle les dormeurs the sleepers from the bob garison series 1979 black and white photographs 6 8 in. 28 x 21 7 cm. Du 1er au 9 avril 1979 sophie calle invita 28 personnes à venir dormir chez elle. Sophie calle the sleepers.

Les dormeurs 1979 sophie calle transforme son lit en site situationnel brouillant les pistes entre l intime et l anonyme. Sophie calle les dormeurs the sleepers 1979. Calle s first major work was entitled les dormeurs the sleepers. To come and sleep in my bed.

Overall 61 1 4 176 1 155 6 447 2 5 cm. One hundred seventy six gelatin silver prints and twenty three text panels. Dechman thomas dunn anne ehrenkranz robert harteveldt charles heilbronn jo carole lauder robert b. On pourrait aisément.

L artiste a en effet demandé à 45 personnes 29 ont accepté de venir dormir dans son lit les unes après les autres pendant huit heures. 15 2 x 20 3 cm one element. 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. I asked people to give me a few hours of their sleep.

1953 the sleepers les dormeurs numbered on the reverse of each print 176 elements ink on gelatin silver prints 24 elements ink on paper 90 page manuscript ink on paper 199 elements each. Sophie calle born 9 october 1953 is a french writer photographer installation artist and conceptual artist. Sophie calle was born into an intellectual and creative household in 1953 paris where she experienced an unconventional childhood. Entre texte et photos les dormeurs sont réunis dans un livre.

The artist asked friends to sleep in her bed in eight hour shifts. Her oncologist father robert calle was a renowned art collector and former director of the nimes carré d art a contemporary art museum. 6 x 7 3 4 inches each text 15 x 20 cm chaque texte. She documented their stay and noted important aspects of their visit as well as what they ate that day.

To let themselves be looked at and photographed. Photographies et textes un livre. 6 x 8 in. 23 séries de 5 à 12 images formant un total de 176 photographies n b 23 textes encadrés individuellement.