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Jul 16, 2015 · If the site of following is the site of performance, then Suite Vénitienne might be a document of the act, which happened under clandestine circumstances in Venice in 1980. However, this considerately designed book is a work in itself. It is a re-enlivened iteration of Calle’s two week carrying-out.
Apr 23, 2015 · Suite Vénitienne was the resulting book, first published in 1979 and re-released this month in collaboration with Siglio. Calle documents her attempts to follow her subject. She phoned hundreds of hotels, even visited the police station, to find out where he was staying, and persuaded a woman who lived opposite to let her photograph him from ...
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Jul 20, 2015 · Sophie Calle makes portraits of herself and strangers through investigative methods including surveillance, interviews, photography, and text. In Suite Vénitienne (Siglio Press, 2015) Calle follows an acquaintance, Henri B., through Venice for two weeks.
Suite Vénitienne concludes with the image of Henri B. as he exits the train station – his trip is over. Calle observes him leave and is confronted with a profound sense of loss.
Mar 24, 2015 · This is the conundrum at the heart of Calle’s work, from “Suite Vénitienne” to “The Address Book” to more recent projects such as “Take Care of Yourself,” in which she distributed a break-up...
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The next morning, armed with a camera and a blonde wig, she took the train to Venice, where she discovered where he was staying, then shadowed him, taking photographs where she could. Published as a book in 1980, the result, Suite Vénitienne, became Sophie Calle's best known work, presented in diary form with photographs opposite her text.
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Nov 17, 2021 · The temptation of speculation is even more seductive in another of Calle’s projects from the same time, “Suite Vénitienne,” in which she stalked a man she barely knew around Venice, taking ...
