Notes

“She was successively called Rachel, Monique, Szyndler, Calle, Pagliero, Gonthier, Sindler. 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 foot 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 describes Monique through extracts from personal notebooks and photographs from family albums, and presents her installation created at the Palais de Tokyo in homage to her mother, who died in 2007.
This book was above all designed as an authentic art object, in collaboration with the artist. The cover text is embroidered to create a precious object, and all of the texts relating to the installation are embossed so as to evoke the texture of certain works by Sophie Calle.

Artists’ Book

Rachel, Monique

— Elle s'est appelée successivement Rachel, Monique, Szyndler, Calle, Pagliero, Gonthier, Sindler: ma mère aimait qu'on parle d'elle

by Sophie Calle

Publisher
Release Place Paris, France
Release Date 2012
Credits
Artist: Sophie Calle
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-2-36511-117-1
Work  
Language French
Format hardcover
Dimensions 24.0 × 17.0 × 4.0 cm