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Sophie Calle: Blind (Hardcover)
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No stranger to the art of staging and to the act of disclosure,
Sophie Caile returns again here to the theme of autobiography and
to the notion of the other, revealing in all their difference and
singularity those who have been blind since birth or who have gone
blind following an accident. By establishing a dialectic between
the testimonies of several generations of blind people and the
photographs taken by her on the basis on these accounts, Sophie
Caile offers readers a reflection on absence, on the loss of one
sense and the compensation of another, on the notion of the visible
and the invisible. In this publication, she revisits three earlier
works constructed and conceived around the idea ofblindness,
setting up a dialogue between them; in "Les Aveugles (The Blind)",
created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their
representation of beauty; in 1991, in "La Couleur aveugle (Blind
Colour)", she asked non-sighted people what they perceived and
compared their descriptions to artists musings on the monochrome;
"La Derniere Image (The Last Image)", produced in 2010 in Istanbul,
historically dubbed the city of the blind, gives a voice to men and
women who have lost their sight, questioning them on the last image
they can remember, their last memory of the visible world. The
work, which is structured as an introspective triptych, uncovers
sensibilities, perceptions and events that are painful, sincere.
Sophie Calles idea is to underline the permanence and irony of a
particular situation, with the aim of redeeming and highlighting
the importance of sight.
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