Sophie Calle

After finding a lost address book, the artist sets out to understand its owner by randomly interviewing contacts to learn more about the personality and past of its owner.

The Address Book

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Pierre and René were competing to show their father unique images of Rome. René's Rome was more baroque; Pierre 's was more linked to life experiences than to culture. The father was delighted. He saw two cities at once.

…He has his own sources of oxygen." For example, Sylvie tells me about a file in Pierre's library, a file he keeps on his enemies,  entitled My Hates.

...He has a difficult relationship with life. But with this very elaborate system, he has managed to make it livable and to make himself likable. You can find him pitiful, or you can see there his grandeur, his uniqueness...He is rebellious, but his revolts are a gesture, through which he defuses his anger. He sets many bombs, but they're imaginary bombs.

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