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Sophie Calle

SOPHIE CALLE

Séance De Rattrapage Perrotin 26 April–24 May 2025 Paris Marais
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“In 2023, for an exhibition entitled ‘À toi de faire ma mignonne’, I took over Picasso museum.

The project Catalogue raisonné de l’inachevé occupied the top floor.

I began by listing all the projects I had completed since the start of my career—taking stock of my professional life.

Then I asked myself: What happens, when life ends, to the ideas that remain dormant—languishing in drawers, boxes...and coffins?

So I decided to inventory and analyze the sketches, the attempts, the abandonments.

To give life to intentions. To finish the unfinished.

However, either there was too much to read on the first three floors or the museum was about to close—but some visitors never made it to the fourth floor.

That’s why I wanted to organize a catch-up session at Perrotin Paris.” Sophie Calle

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About the Artist

Born in 1953 in Paris, Sophie Calle is a French artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. She has been described as a conceptual artist, a photographer, a movie director or even detective; but has developed a practice that is instantly recognisable for a distinct narrative and the frequent combination of images with text. Each of these projects can be seen as another chapter in a vast overall system of references and echoes where Calle often blurs the boundaries between the intimate and the public, reality and fiction, art and life. Since the late 1970s, Sophie Calle has merged image and narration. Her work methodically organises an unveiling of reality–her own and that of others, while allocating a controlled part of this reality to chance.

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About the Gallery

Emmanuel Perrotin founded his first gallery in 1989 at the age of 21. He has opened since then over 17 different spaces, with the aim of continuing to offer increasingly vibrant and creative environments to experience artists work. He has worked closely with his roster of artists, some since more than 25 years, to help fulfil their ambitious dreams and projects.

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76 rue de Turenne
Paris
France
Opening Hours
Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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Paris 76 rue de Turenne
Perrotin contemporary art gallery in Paris Marais France
Perrotin
76 rue de Turenne, Paris, France
+33 1 42 16 79 79
http://www.perrotin.com

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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