Sophie Calle – Les seins miraculeux (Beautiful breasts), 2008 – Photograph

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Series: Visionaire 55: Surprise.

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'Les seins miraculeux (Beautiful breasts)' by Sophie Calle is a photograph presented as an open hardcover book, its spine visible at centre. Printed across both pages in warm monochrome is a close-cropped torso: two hands cup the subject's breasts from below while a dark bra hangs unfastened at the waist. The face and lower body are cut off by the frame, directing attention entirely to the gesture. Calle — who famously began making art without identifying it as such — consistently works with the body, identity, and the gaze as raw material. This work's book format is characteristic of her practice of embedding images within objects that carry their own narrative authority, turning the act of looking into something closer to reading.

Sophie Calle (France, 1953) is a conceptual artist and writer known for blending personal narrative with investigative art. Her work often explores themes of intimacy, identity, and voyeurism, using photography, text, and performance. Notable projects include The Hotel and Take Care of Yourself, which merge art and autobiography with striking emotional depth.

Sophie Calle

Les seins miraculeux (Beautiful breasts), 2008

Name: Les seins miraculeux (Beautiful breasts), 2008
Brand: Sophie Calle
SKU: 20285
Price: 900.00 EUR
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Print on cardboard with pull-out inserts.

Unsigned.

Series: Visionaire 55: Surprise.

Published by Visionaire Publishing.

Sophie Calle

Les seins miraculeux (Beautiful breasts), 2008

Limited Edition Print

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EUR 900

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I did not think about becoming an artist when I began. I did not consider what I was doing as art.
- Sophie Calle

Hailed as 'France's answer to Tracey Enim' by The Telegraph, Sophie Calle, is a conceptual artist, widely known for her 1982 piece 'The Hotel' - a collection of photos depicting the personal belongings of hotel guests, which aimed to make assumptions about their identities and lifestyle. Her main style of art consists of taking black and white photographs, as well as combining a performance element to her pieces. Calle is largely associated with the contemporary art movement, which strived to reject modernism, as well as reject the post structuralist notion of 'the death of the author'. Other notable works of Calle's include The Shadow (1981), which was an attempt to provide evidence of her own existence through the medium of photography, and Address Book (1983), which caused controversy when Calle was accused of breaching the privacy of the subject Pierre Baudry, who owned the address book used in the piece. As of 2005, Calle has been a professor of film and photography at The European Graduate School of Switzerland.

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Les seins miraculeux (Beautiful breasts), 2008

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