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Artist Sophie Calle Took a Job as a Maid to Spy on the Guests


Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

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Calle’s methodical analysis makes the reader more curious about the artist herself than the guests she spies on.

https://hyperallergic.com/697958/sophie-calle-the-hotel-review/

...in 1981 Calle took a job as a maid in a Venice hotel, where she examined, photographed, and otherwise forensically documented the possessions and activities of the various guests whose rooms she had been tasked to clean. By looking through their suitcases, reading their diaries, and rummaging through their trash, Calle paints a subjective, voyeuristic portrait of who she imagines these people to be, and invites us to fantasize about them along with her.

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She is dedicated to her art!

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