Yesterday I visited Sophie Calle's exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, entitled "Talking to Strangers". Its the English version of "Prenez Soin de Vous", which premiered in 2007 in France. Sophie Calle takes events in her life as a trigger to create exhibitions that combine ideas, words, sound, visual art and performance. In "Prenez Soin de Vous" she invited 107 women to help her to come to grips with an email she received from her boyfriend, dumping her. The group of women include dancers, singers, a young girl, a children's book writer, a cartoonist, a psychotherapist, a translator, a criminologist, a tarot card reader, a news editor and many more. Each of them interprets, performs or analyzes the text, calling on their personal and professional resources. The heaviness of the message disappears as the individual responses grow into a jigsaw held together by the collective effort to make sense of it.
Sophie Calle: Talking to Strangers
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