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Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique (Beaux livres)
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About Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique
Product Description The haunting story of Sophie Calle’s mother, told through diary excerpts and family photographs “She was called successively Rachel, Monique, Szyndler, Calle, Pagliero, Gonthier, Sindler,” reads the first lines of Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique, embroidered on the cover. “My mother liked people to talk about her. Her life did not appear in my work, and that annoyed her. When I set up my camera at the bottom of the bed in which she lay dying―fearing that she would pass away in my absence, whereas I wanted to be present and hear her last words―she exclaimed, ‘Finally.’”Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique tells the story of Monique Szyndler, Sophie Calle’s mother who died in 2007, through diary excerpts and photographs selected by the artist from family albums. Described as “haunting” and “a mystery novel that tirelessly searches for a missing person,” the Rachel Monique project honors a daughter’s complicated relationship with her mother and the artist’s deeply felt grief. This volume, presenting Calle’s installation of Rachel Monique at the Palais de Tokyo, was designed in close collaboration with the artist. The cover text is embroidered to create a precious object, and all of the texts relating to the installation are beautifully embossed. Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique is a highly personal and moving book, intimate and universal in its expressions of mourning and memory. Review A highly personal work of mourning that manages to be universal in its evocation of the emotionally complex mother-daughter relationship. (Mary Kaye Schilling T Magazine) From the Author L'oeuvre de Sophie Calle se donne à voir depuis plus de vingt ans sous la forme d'installations de photographies et de récits, dont l'articulation et l'agencement se rapprochent d'un art narratif issu des années 70. Toutefois, le sillon dans lequel s'inscrivent ses travaux reflète une relation entre l'art et la vie distincte du registre neutre, distancié et informatif des oeuvres conceptuelles. Le travail de Sophie Calle constitue l'aboutissement et le prolongement de situations mises en scène et vécues sur un mode autobiographique, donnant ainsi une place importante à l'affect et au sentiment. L'artiste construit des règles du jeu et des rituels dans le but d'améliorer sa vie, de lui rendre sa dimension existentielle. About the Author Sophie Calle (born 1953) creates works exploring the tensions between the observed, the reported, the secret and the unsaid. She has mounted solo shows at major museums across the world and represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2007, where her film of her mother’s deathbed, Couldn’t Capture Death, premiered.
