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| | | Sophie Calle: The Hotel
![Sophie Calle: The Hotel](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-the-hotel-131.jpg) A forensic conceptualist's inventory of the ordinary and extraordinary lives in a Venetian hotel In 1981 Sophie Calle took a job as a chambermaid for the Hotel C in Venice, Italy. Stashing her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, she not only cleans and tidies, but sorts through the evidence of the hotel guests' lives. Assigned 12 rooms on the fourth floor, she surveys the state of the guests' bedding, their books, newspapers and postcards, perfumes and cologne, traveling clothes and costumes for Carnival. She methodically photographs the contents of closets and suitcases, examining the detritus in the rubbish bin and the toiletries arranged on the washbasin. She discovers their birth dates and blood types, diary entries, letters from and photographs of lovers and family. She eavesdrops on arguments and love-making. She retrieves a pair of shoes from the wastebasket and takes two chocolates from a neglected box of sweets, while leaving behind stashes of money, pills and jewelry. Her thievery is the eye of the camera, observing the details that were not meant for her, or us, to see. The Hotel now manifests as a book for the first time in English (it was previously included in the book Double Game). Collaborating with the artist on a new design that features enhanced and larger photographs, and pays specific attention to the beauty of the book as an object, Siglio is releasing its third book authored by Calle, after The Address Book (2012) and Suite Vénitienne (2015). Sophie Calle (born 1953) is an internationally renowned artist whose controversial works often fuse conceptual art and Oulipo-like constraints, investigatory methods and the plundering of autobiography. The Whitechapel Gallery in London organized a retrospective in 2009, and her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Hayward Gallery and Serpentine, London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among others. She lives and works in Paris.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Sophie Calle: The Hotel'.PRAISE AND REVIEWSFinancial Times: Weekend Baya Simons Together they ask what our habits and possessions might reveal about us and whetherour curiosity about the private lives of others is normal or shameful. Like many of Calle’s projects, the work of art is in her act of intrusion; the resulting photographs are merely the eerily beautiful evidence. Photo Eye Odette England The Hotel, as a book-object, is meticulous. It presents, in size and weight, like a good quality bible kept in the bedside top drawer. Elephant This book-cum-quest strikes the quintessential Calle-chord: its through line is the longing to know the lives of strangers. Artforum Johanna Fateman A stunningly produced new book in English made from Calle’s 1981 project is a perfect opportunity to revisit—or introduce yourself to—the irresistible photographs derived from her masterful snooping. Bookforum Sarah Moroz A stand-alone book with a fresh redesign—the pages are edged in gold—and a selection of previously unpublished images. Playing with voyeuristic curiosity (and destroying any naive belief in privacy), Calle compiled a vast collection of color and black-and-white images along with written observations Wallpaper* Harriet Lloyd-Smith A provocative examination of privacy, lack thereof, and what fragmented possessions might reveal about our lives Financial Times: How To Spend It Baya Simons Like many of Calle’s projects, the work of art is in her act of intrusion; the resulting photographs are merely the eerily beautiful evidence. Vanity Fair Madison Reid These clinical yet intimate observations (and sometimes judgements) expose innumerable contradictions within this finite space, and within the thoughts of the artist herself. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/11/2022!['Sophie Calle: The Hotel' is Back in Stock!](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-the-hotel-is-back-in-stock-4.jpg) Reviewed in The New Yorker, Artforum and Hyperallergic, among many other esteemed publications, Sophie Calle's The Hotel is the newest tour-de-force collaboration between the French artist and adventurous American publisher, Siglio press. “On Monday, February 16, 1981, I was hired as a temporary chambermaid for three weeks in a Venetian hotel,” Calle writes. “I was assigned twelve bedrooms on the fourth floor. In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the personal belongings of the hotel guests and observed, through details, lives which remained unknown to me. On Friday, March 6, the job came to an end.” Featured image is one of 192 mostly black-and-white photographs gathered in the book and published alongside short ruminations on Calle's clandestine discoveries. continue to blog | | ![Sophie Calle: Neither Give nor Throw Away](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-neither-give-nor-throw-away-11.jpg) | Actes SudISBN: 9782330193614 USD $29.95 | CAD $44.95 UK £ 24.99Pub Date: 4/29/2025 Forthcoming
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| ![Sophie Calle: Because](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-because-28.jpg) | Atelier EXBISBN: 9782365114097 USD $55.00 | CAD $79Pub Date: 12/3/2024 Active | In stock
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| ![Sophie Calle: The Sleepers](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-the-sleepers-49.jpg) | SiglioISBN: 9781938221347 USD $48.00 | CAD $70 UK £ 42Pub Date: 12/17/2024 Active | In stock
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| ![Sophie Calle: Overshare](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-overshare-77.jpg) | Walker Art CenterISBN: 9781935963301 USD $50.00 | CAD $71 UK £ 45Pub Date: 11/12/2024 Active | In stock
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| ![Sophie Calle: True Stories](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-true-stories-510.jpg) | Actes SudISBN: 9782330182465 USD $22.00 | CAD $32 UK £ 18.5Pub Date: 4/9/2024 Active | Out of stock
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| ![Sophie Calle: The Hotel](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-the-hotel-118.jpg) | SiglioISBN: 9781938221293 USD $39.95 | CAD $49.95 UK £ 31.99Pub Date: 12/7/2021 Active | In stock
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| ![Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-rachel-monique-157.jpg) | Editions Xavier BarralISBN: 9782365111171 USD $75.00 | CAD $99Pub Date: 4/25/2017 Active | Out of stock
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| ![Sophie Calle: Suite Vénitienne](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-suite-v-nitienne-264.jpg) | SiglioISBN: 9781938221095 USD $34.95 | CAD $45.95 UK £ 30Pub Date: 5/26/2015 Active | In stock
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| ![Sophie Calle: Voir la mer](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-voir-la-mer-127.jpg) | Actes SudISBN: 9782330016166 USD $35.00 | CAD $47.5 UK £ 29Pub Date: 2/28/2014 Active | Out of stock
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| ![Sophie Calle: The Address Book](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-the-address-book-216.jpg) | SiglioISBN: 9780979956294 USD $29.95 | CAD $39.95 UK £ 27Pub Date: 9/30/2012 Active | In stock
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| ![Sophie Calle: Take Care of Yourself](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/sophie-calle-take-care-of-yourself-144.jpg) | Dis Voir/Actes SudISBN: 9782742768936 USD $125.00 | CAD $170 UK £ 105Pub Date: 12/15/2007 Active | Out of stock
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