The Hotel (1983)
Sophie Calle is a very voyeuristic artists and I am inspired by her sneaky and nosey ideas, which can be really interesting. Calle's work usually consists of her looking into other people's lives without them even noticing or knowing and as revealed alot of personal things to her audience. Sophie Calle as also pointed the camera to herself in her work too.
The photograph above is from a series entitled 'The Hotel' which is a collection of photographs that showed a guest's room at the Venetian Hotel where Calle worked for three weeks temporary as a chambermaid. During this time Calle looked after twelve rooms, noting down her guest's habits, presenting them using photography (guests were not identifiable).
Sophie Calle's work is said to raise questions about what interests us?
I think Sophie Calle is very inspiring for my current project entitled, 'My World' with the way she has presented other people's personal space, that was not truly their own, but borrowed. Maybe I could present my world within one space, like my bedroom for example rather than a number of places, to show patterns with how I keep my personal space and how I live in that certain area... However this is just one idea that I may develop, which will be very personal.
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