Sophie Calle: Talking to Strangers

16 Oct 2009-3 Jan 2010

Overview

The Whitechapel Gallery presents the first UK retrospective of leading French contemporary artist Sophie Calle. Sophie Calle’s work involves encounters with strangers that are both deeply personal and revealing of broader social issues. Placing trust in individuals, her artistic social experiments explore identity, the connections between individuals and the boundaries between the public and private self. Images and texts document the performative process, and her work creates an unsettling intimacy but a positive outlook. This major exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery brings together 12 key works to survey Sophie Calle’s career from the late 1970s to the present day.