Wahre Geschichten

Sophie Calle exposes herself beyond recognition. In 64 dramatic, frivolous, tender, and playful episodes, the French artist recounts an entire life in fragments. She tells of the slights of her early years, of incomprehensibly growing breasts, of crude love affairs, of her time as a stripper and nude model, of last and very last things. She authenticates each of these episodes with an 'authentic' memento, with photographs of wedding dresses, love letters, scorched beds, and stuffed cats. Sophie Calle has thus created a cabinet of curiosities, desires, experiences, and fantasies. The lines of demarcation between fiction and reality are casually blurred. Childhood, love, sex, death: Sophie Calle tells the Bildungsroman of her life through laconic texts and ambiguous photographs, in a highly stubborn mixture of melancholy, voyeurism, and dry humor.