Overshare

This volume accompanies the eponymous exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which is the first exhibition in North America to explore the range and depth of artist Sophie Calle’s practice over the past five decades. Through examples of major bodies of work and lesser-known pieces, the exhibition captures Calle’s insightful exploration of the human condition and reveals the ways in which her early work anticipated the emergence of social media as a space for creation and sharing. The presentation includes photographs, videos, installations and texts, highlighting the artist’s virtuoso use of different media to explore broadly recognizable and emotionally resonant themes.

Organized into four thematic sections-“The Spy”, “The Protagonist”, “The End” and “The Beginning”-the book takes a fresh approach to some of Calle’s most acclaimed works, including The Sleepers (1979) and Venetian Suite (1980), while weaving in little-studied works such as Cash Machine (1991-2003) and Unfinished (2005). The catalog further explores this new examination of Calle’s work with original writings by Henriette Huldisch, Eugenie Brinkeman, Aruna D’Souza and Courtenay Finn.