French artist Sophie Calle, one of the most important artists of her generation, will make her debut at the MAC with For the Last and First Time. The exhibition consists of two recent projects by Calle: The Last Image, 2010, a series of photographs accompanied by texts, and Voir la mer, 2011, a series of digital films. These two series take an incisive, poetic look at the particular reality of the mental images of blind people and at the discovery of beauty and the sublime.
Sophie Calle
For the Last and First Time
Premise of The Last Image
“I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.”
Premise of Voir la mer
“In Istanbul, a city surrounded by water, I met people who had never seen the sea. I filmed their first time.”
Biography
Born in 1953 in Paris, Sophie Calle is a writer, conceptual artist, photographer, filmmaker, even detective-or a little bit of each, according to the characters she assumes, the rituals she devises, the parts of her life she tells and the feelings she shares. Her work may be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Gallery, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A.; and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Conférence de Sophie Calle prononcée au MAC le mardi 3 février 2015, dans le cadre du lancement de l’exposition.
Présentation de l’exposition