Sophie Calle Because

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The Japanese version of "Because" by Sophie Calle, a contemporary French female artist garnering attention from around the world, is finally available!

Because I'm fascinated by the baby.
The mother told passers-by
"But you haven't seen the picture of this girl!" he cried.
Because I read that story

When Sophie Calle released her series "Parce que" (Because) in 2018, the books "Parce que" and "Because" were published in both French and English.
The work exhibited in the gallery has a frame covered with cloth embroidered with text beginning with "because." After reading the text, viewers are able to flip the cloth over to face the photograph underneath, superimposing the images they receive from the words onto the photograph.
In the book, just like in the artwork, the reader first reads the words and then explores the images by taking out the photographs themselves, a structure expressed in the form of a book.
An experimental collection that allows you to re-experience Sophie Calle's work in book form.
At the request of Sophie Calle herself, this is the first Japanese edition to be published. It contains the same content as the new French and English editions, and includes six new stories.
Supervised by modern and contemporary art curator Aomi Okabe, the exhibition presents the world of Sophie Calle's work in beautiful Japanese.

Sophie Calle
Born in France in 1953. A conceptual artist who creates highly narrative works using photography and words based on extremely everyday and personal activities. He has been active as a contemporary artist since the 1980s. In Japan, he held traveling exhibitions at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum from 2013 to 2016, and a solo exhibition at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019. From late November 2024, the exhibition "Absence - Toulouse-Lautrec and Sophie Calle" will be held to commemorate the reopening of the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum of Art. He will be the recipient of the 2024 Praemium Imperiale Award in Painting.

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Product Information

Publisher Seigensha

release date 2024 / 11 / 19

Part numberKART10725W-9784861529641

Specification Japanese Supervision: Aomi Okabe
Translated by: Tomoyo Yanagawa
Format: B5
Total pages: 84
Binding: Hardcover, cloth-covered

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