Sophie Calle - Neither give nor throw away

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

Shortly before the opening of my exhibition À toi de faire, ma mignonne at the Musée Picasso in Paris, a storm damaged my storeroom and mold spores got into The Blind, one of the series that was to feature in the show. To avoid any risk of contamination, the restorers determined it...

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WRITTEN IN FRENCH

Shortly before the opening of my exhibition À toi de faire, ma mignonne at the Musée Picasso in Paris, a storm damaged my storeroom and mold spores got into The Blind, one of the series that was to feature in the show. To avoid any risk of contamination, the restorers determined it was preferable to destroy the works. Responding to the urgency of the situation, I staged their absence from the show. For a project that originated with the anniversary of Picasso's death, and ended referencing my own eventual demise, the idea of decomposition seemed apt. But The Blind held too much importance in my own life for theirs to end in landfill. That is when I remembered artist Roland Topor's idea of burying an old sweater that he could not bring himself to give away nor to discard.
Sophie Calle

French
80 pages

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