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| | | Sophie Calle: The SleepersTranslation by Emma Ramadan.
 Calle’s seminal 1979 series of people sleeping in her bed: now in EnglishIn one of Sophie Calle’s first artistic experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances and strangers to sleep in her bed. Twenty-seven people agreed, among them a baker, a babysitter, an actor, a journalist, a seamstress, a trumpet player and three painters. Calle photographed them awake and asleep, secretly recording any private conversations once the door closed. She served each a meal, and, if they agreed, she subjected them to a questionnaire that probed their personal predilections, habits and dreams as well as their interpretations of the act of sleeping in her bed: a curiosity, a game, an artwork, or—as Calle intended it—a job. The result, comprising her first exhibition in 1979, was a grid of 198 photographs and short texts.
Unlike the original installation, this artist’s book version of The Sleepers contains not only all the photographs and captions but also her engrossing, novellalike narrative, untranslated until now. From the single, liminal mise-en-scène of her bedroom, Calle reports in text and photos, as if in real time, as sleepers arrive, talk, sleep, eat and leave. Their acute and sometimes startling, sometimes endearing particularities merge into something almost like an eight-day-long dream. Many seeds of Calle’s subsequent works are embedded in The Sleepers: her exacting and transgressive methods of investigation, her cultivation of intimacy and remove, and her unrelenting curiosity. In this work, as she observes the sleepers, they observe her too—with reciprocal candor. The Sleepers, clothbound and pillow-like, unfolds as it opens, inviting the reader to join the others in Calle’s bed.
Detail from "thirteenth sleeper, Jennie Michelet," from 'Sophie Calle: The Sleepers'PRAISE AND REVIEWSHyperallergic Hakim Bishara Always ahead of her time, Calle presaged our current lives under ubiquitous technological surveillance while testing and teasing the ever-thin line between intimacy and estrangement. Wallpaper* Hannah Silver The 27 sleepers reward Calle with a raw intimacy. They are captured deep in sleep, feet flung out from under the covers, or caught on waking, startled by her photographs, Calle's voyeurist detective abilities softened by the vulnerability of the sleeping. Cultured Johanna Fateman The text, beautifully translated, and accompanied by the 198 photographs that composed her 1979 installation of the same title, is both a literary achievement and a document of a seminal performance at the start of her singular career. Literary Hub Kara Kelsey In our digital age Calle’s themes take on new urgency. [...] The themes Calle has explored have amplified into a chronic condition of surveillance and hyper-vulnerability. Through this lens, the imperative repeatedly expressed across Calle’s projects speaks directly to our moment: the art of seeing and of being seen must also address freedom and agency. Photo Eye The book [...] is an intimate object whose tactility falls somewhere between a pillow and a sacred text, with its cushioned navy cover and three hundred silver gilded pages. The Financial Times Baya Simons Under [Sophie Calle's] gaze, even the most unremarkable of guests become complex characters, forming part of a strange, ethereal collection of short stories. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/5/2024 How we love The Sleepers, Sophie Calle’s newest artist’s book with Siglio. So beautifully made, and so mysterious. Swiss-bound with a puffy, pillowy cloth cover, bright silver edges and exquisitely printed endpapers and interiors, this is a book that all Calle lovers will want for their libraries forever. Calle’s front cover copy explains the project perfectly: “I asked people to give me eight hours of their sleep. To come and sleep in my bed. For eight days, my room was to be a constantly occupied space. Twenty-seven people agreed. The occupation of the bed began on Sunday, April 1, 1979 at 5 p.m. and ended on Monday, April 9 at 10 a.m. Sleepers came and went. Some crossed paths. Everyone was offered breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Clean bedding was provided. To establish a neutral relationship, I asked a few questions. I took photographs every hour. I watched my guests sleep.” Featured here, a detail from “first and second sleepers, Gloria K. and Anne B.” continue to blog | |  | Actes SudISBN: 9782330193614
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