Gallery Installation View: Sophie Calle Exhibition, Europe

5 October 2017 · Paris

Eight framed works line a white gallery wall in two rows — photographs above, dense text panels below. The images show hotel room interiors and a vintage American automobile on a Parisian boulevard; the text beneath each one runs in French, close-set and floor-length, as if the words need as much space as the pictures do. It is conceptual photography at its most deliberate: the image proposes, the text disposes, and neither makes full sense without the other.