L'Hotel Sophie Calle
Vera Greenwood
Dates Showing: July 21st - August 24th, 2002
In Vera Greenwood's latest installation, L'Hotel Sophie Calle, she documents her clumsy attempts to surveil French artist Sophie Calle. This work is a response to Calle's own practice including her La Filature, where she proposed her mother hire a P.I. to follow her every move. Greenwood presents the artefacts of her project (undertaken while doing her residency at the Canada Council Paris Studio). Her museological presentation, however, leaves as much information about her own character as it leaves little of Calle's. Greenwood's diary of the events, seen through her writings in the exhibition implicate our own participation in the viewing of this installation, leaving us to try to separate our surveillance from Greenwood's and then Calle's
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