Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Sophie Calle

The Hotel, Room 47 (1981)

The Bedroom, Attic (2018)
Reading about Sophie Calle, she strikes me as very strange but a very straight-forward person. Some of her works intrude upon others such as “The Hotel, Room 47 (1981)”. Sophie rummages through another person’s belongings and indiscriminately takes photographs of it like a detective unbeknownst to the guest. In a way, these photographs express herself as someone who takes interest in another person’s private side which is pretty much voyeurism. My inspired selfie are photographs of my brother’s bedroom. I was actually cautious in what I photographed for obvious reasons. It felt strange and awkward doing this and I couldn’t really imagine what it would’ve been like for Sophie to do these things normally.

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