9782365111171-2365111173-Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique

Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique

ISBN-13: 9782365111171
ISBN-10: 2365111173
Edition: Bilingual
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral
Format: Hardcover 208 pages
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ISBN-13: 9782365111171
ISBN-10: 2365111173
Edition: Bilingual
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral
Format: Hardcover 208 pages

Summary

Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique (ISBN-13: 9782365111171 and ISBN-10: 2365111173), was published by Editions Xavier Barral in 2017. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Artists' Books (Individual Artists, Photography & Video) books. You can easily purchase or rent Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Artists' Books books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $6.33.

Description

The haunting story of Sophie Calle’s mother, told through diary excerpts and family photographs

“She was called successively Rachel, Monique, Szyndler, Calle, Pagliero, Gonthier, Sindler,” reads the first lines of Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique, embroidered on the cover. “My mother liked people to talk about her. Her life did not appear in my work, and that annoyed her. When I set up my camera at the bottom of the bed in which she lay dying―fearing that she would pass away in my absence, whereas I wanted to be present and hear her last words―she exclaimed, ‘Finally.’”

Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique tells the story of Monique Szyndler, Sophie Calle’s mother who died in 2007, through diary excerpts and photographs selected by the artist from family albums. Described as “haunting” and “a mystery novel that tirelessly searches for a missing person,” the Rachel Monique project honors a daughter’s complicated relationship with her mother and the artist’s deeply felt grief.

This volume, presenting Calle’s installation of Rachel Monique at the Palais de Tokyo, was designed in close collaboration with the artist. The cover text is embroidered to create a precious object, and all of the texts relating to the installation are beautifully embossed. Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique is a highly personal and moving book, intimate and universal in its expressions of mourning and memory.

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