Sophie Calle  was Born in 1953 in Paris, Sophie Calle is a French artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. she would describe herself as a conceptual artist,photoghroher and movie director and sometimes goes as far to say she is a detective. She has developed a practice that is instantly recognisable. Calle’s work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as oulipo.  Her distinct narrative and frequent combination of images wihtin a text. exhibit of her projects she uses in order to capture a chapter of system references and is said to ‘echoes where Calle often blurs the boundaries between the intimate and the public, reality and fiction, art and life.’ Since the 70’s she has merged in the unveiling of what is reality and her own controlled chance of reality how allocated reality is to herself.  Her deceptions of human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy recognises the ability to investigate in private lives.She now teaches as professor of ilm and photography in Switzerland and has lectured in many schools across the state.

Calle’s views the ending of a suffering relationship a point of glee and unconfined positivity. The worse the break up the better the art, through experiencing pain you allow yourself to start calculating how best to exploit it. she has a Frame of work called Exquisite Pain, it contains a period of images and grief experienced over many years. She wanted to point out how she associated every bad relationship with the society around her and the way in which the untouched box was her tough harsh memories or the relationship and when she was ready to deal with it she exploited her harmful past thoughts into art.Her work contains love letters, air tickets and remembered conversations from her and her past relationships, her work shows an evolution taking the observer through 92 days leading up to her being abandonment and then the recovery after the break-up itself. she took a physical trip in order to show the physicality of leaving her boyfriend behind. she made complicated relationships of where to travel. This was relevant as she was left for someone else while he was away on holiday. She wants to portray her methods of getting over ‘shock’ by recounting her misery with everyone she meets, and how this emotion gradually diminishes. the words seen over herself in the above image are from the all the taped words of the gloomy and outpouring relationships she had with friends and strangers. It was said. ‘For the Paris exhibition on which the book is based, she had the texts embroidered on to large wall hangings, which were placed next to her photographs and her assorted bits of break-up memorabilia (images of the clothes she was wearing on that day, the red telephone he called her on to say she was no longer the one’

I believe I can use her influences of her work through the way she conceptual words to be formed into images of herself, her reality it her pain and yet how she exploits it to others in order to get feedback fo her situation. I think this is fascinating as you get opinions of yourself from strangers. This to me shows her aims of surrealism as this is a clearly coal from of feeling projected to the physicality of someone themselves.

Her work links to surrealism through the disposition of of objects feelings and people. Her main purpose is the way in which people feel emotions between people. I find it interesting how she started through the aim of using tapes to then link to more abstract thoughts of using objects to link to the history and past of people. this from of reality,politics and her main manifesto inspiration of surrealism really contributes to making such simplicity yet beauty In the new contemporary arts. Within this set of images she want sot relate objects to people and form a sense of identity through this. This to me has an almost typological reference to it. The images convey the personality of a person yet without showing who they are directly themselves. Although her worksheet would not say is done in order to signify a suggestion of self help, it does through the narrative create a less hysterical and more detached as the weeks pass is a soothing demonstration of how misery fades. Her stories of how stories of peoples distress are captivating and beautifully shown through the writing written across themselves.The project from being merely contrived and pretentious, or an exercise in self-indulgence. She has said that “Anybody who stopped to ask me why I was crying, I would tell them,” she says. “My friends were all asking about the exotic trip that I had been on, but all I wanted to talk about was the end of my relationship. Sometimes I would be crying alone in a bar and someone would ask me what was wrong, and I’d explain to them, and I’d get talking.” her work has such a clear narrative yet still has access to so many relevant and successful themes throughout. I will definitely experiment within hertechniwues of using text, tapes and possible objects in order to connote a feeling and story that has happened to a person. The could be further indulged to me possible using a family member. Her aspect of reality is also connected to my work already and I think this is relevant as it allows myself to bend the truth as no ones reality is similar.

when comparing the artists her work has such a strong juxtaposition to my previous artist Rits, as her work is not meant to be seen as a romanticism of the world we live in and echoed as a dream, but a subsided from the reality of words covering us and explaining what our identity is said to be. Both artists however use the use of projections throughout their work, both be it is completely different styles and circumstances but both in order to connote a story wether that is just beauty or an emotional narrative such as Calle. I think he combination of these two very separate artists will result in an interesting manifesto which will then lead me to a interesting shoot.