From June 29, 2017 to August 20, 2017, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture presented Sophie Calle’s Missing, a large-scale exhibition curated by Ars Citizen of the internationally acclaimed French artist.
From June 29, 2017 through August 20, 2017, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC) presented Sophie Calle’s Missing, a large-scale exhibition curated by Ars Citizen of the internationally acclaimed French artist. Featuring four of Calle’s most prominent projects, the exhibition is her most extensive to date in the United States.
Conceived as a journey, Missing gathered four of Sophie Calle’s major projects – itinerant since their creation – into a site-responsive presentation across the historic and scenic FMCAC campus on the San Francisco waterfront. The corpus offered an overview of Calle’s art since the 1980s, and included her iconic projects spanning the last decade: Take Care of Yourself, Rachel Monique, and Voir la mer.
Unveiled through a narrative of intimate stories, both personal and collective, Missing emphasized the analogy of mother and sea (“mère” and “mer” in French), while proposing a reflection on the universal concepts of disappearance, loss and absence, central in the artist’s work and exploration.
PARALLEL PROGRAMMING:
FMCAC curated parallel programs in partnership with leading San Francisco Bay Area cultural and educational institutions. They included a conversation with Calle at FMCAC; a screening of Calle’s film and video works at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA); a presentation and book signing with Calle at City Lights Bookstore; and a Sophie Calle film anthology at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater. On the occasion of the event, Fraenkel Gallery also presented a special exhibition by Sophie Calle at FraenkelLAB.
About the Artist: The French conceptual artist Sophie Calle (b. Paris 1953, lives and works in Malakoff, France) has exhibited extensively around the globe since the late 1970s. For almost four decades, she has produced a singular body of work merging image and text and revealing a narrative approach that eliminates the frontiers between intimate and public, fact and fiction, art and life. Highly autobiographical, her art and exploration embrace the universal and challenging concept of absence. Her projects are elaborated by creating a vast system of echoes and internal references, allowing us to read them today not as a simple accumulation of titles but as connected chapters of a total and absolute artwork.
From June 29, 2017 to August 20, 2017, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture presented Sophie Calle’s Missing, a large-scale exhibition curated by Ars Citizen of the internationally acclaimed French artist.
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