Creator Bio
Sophie Calle
b. 1953
French photographer and conceptual artist Sophie Calle is best known for works combining texts and photographs to explore emotional life and human relationships. Her voyeuristic techniques include following a stranger through the streets of Paris and photographing him, and hiring a private detective to follow and photograph her. Calle’s work has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Centre Georges Pompidou; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. She lives in Paris.
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The Eruv
An eruv is a symbolic boundary around a certain area, which extends the boundaries of the home on the Sabbath, when carrying objects in public spaces is forbidden by Jewish law. Calle used the concept…