Beyond the Gaze – Shared Perspectives from the acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle.

Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a writer, photographer, and France’s most celebrated conceptual artist. Her highly autobiographical, multi-disciplinary work combines the confessional and the cerebral. Her work, realised in photography and film, writing, performances and installations, is simultaneously emotionally wrought and clinically detached, inducing in its audience a furtive sense of voyeurism and intrusion. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, evoking the French literary movement Oulipo. She often depicts human vulnerability and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognised for her detective-like tendency to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. Her photographic work frequently includes text panels of her own writing. Calle represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2007.

Exhibitions of Calle's work have taken place at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Videobrasil, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil; Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands.