Gotham handbook | Sophie CALLE (1994-2000) | PERROTIN

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Sophie CALLE

Gotham handbook, 1994-2000

Set consisting, in the following order, of 2 framed texts, 7 framed pannels containing a text , b/w photographs, documents, one colour photograph under Plexiglas, one framed text.

textes encadrés | framed texts : 64 x 68 cm | 25 13/64 x 26 49/64 inch
textes encadrés | framed texts : 34 x 68 cm | 13 25/64 x 26 49/64 inch
chaque panneau | pannel : 143 x 86 cm | 56 19/64 x 33 55/64 inch
photographie sous Plexiglas | photograph under Plexiglas : 180 x 120 cm | 70 55/64 x 47 1/4 inch
texte encadré | framed text : 14 x 24 cm | 5 33/64 x 9 29/64 inch

Edition of 3

Courtesy Perrotin

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In his 1992 novel Leviathan, Paul Auster thanks me for having authorized him to mingle fact with fiction. And indeed, on pages 60 to 67 of his book, he uses a number of episodes from my life to create a fictive character named Maria, who then leaves me to live out her own story.
SInce, in Leviathan, Auster had taken me as a subject, I imagined swapping roles and taking him as the author of my actions. I asked him to invent a fictive character which I would attempt to resemble.
He preferred to send me "Personnal Instructions for SC on How to Improve Life in New York City (because she asked...).
I followed his directives.

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