SOPHIE CALLE "FATHER, MOTHER" DIPTYCH, 1990Sophie Calle (born 1953) is an internationally acclaimed French contemporary artist. Highly conceptual in her approach, Calle's projects often begin with material from her personal life. Since the 1970s, her practice has engaged with the boundaries of private versus public consciousness. Calles remarkable body of work is interdisciplinary, including books and installations combining photography, video, text, and participatory performance. She returns

that seem to devour their pictorial plain

this work defies convention

Green paper

General Idea created these hearts in a series of 4

A spectral hand extends from the seam of the composition

Scherman expertly portrays a lustrous arrangement of delicate rose grapes that fill the vertical plane of the canvas

evoking a sense of familiarity and nostalgia

This print is one of the earliest versions

Musée de l'Élysée (Switzerland)

this (contemporary) event is a poignant allegory to have chosen

33"H 22"W (work)

Her body appears to be created by a combination of hand drawing