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The multifaceted research of the Parisian artist through the lens of photography.

This monograph explores the work of French artist Sophie Calle (1953) through her central and complex relationship with photography. Presence and absence, physical proximity and emotional distance, the search for closeness and the pain of separation, the tension between desire and unfulfilled longing: Calle's work has always engaged with the fundamental dynamics of every relationship.

Through the theme of absence - of a person, of love, of sight, of the image - the catalogue accompanying the exhibition in Rome offers an overview of her research spanning over forty years, capturing the complexity of a practice founded on the intertwining of the personal and relational dimensions, reality and narrative, writing and photography. From her earliest works, Sophie Calle disrupted the traditional assumptions of representation, entrusting photography (in constant dialogue with text) with the task of bearing witness to or evoking what is absent, lost or inaccessible.