This round of "LOVE" in a Minute - Artist & Work looks at Sophie Calle's Take Care of Yourself．On view in Section 3: Love in Losing of "All You Need Is LOVE," this project shows Calle "sharing the pain" of being abandoned by her boyfriend using methods unique to her artistic practice.
One of France's leading conceptual artists, Sophie Calle spins out yarns that intermingle reality and fiction. This process involves opening up people's deep psyche or imagination and personal lives to share with others.
In the project Take Care of Yourself (2007) for the French Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale, Calle sends 107 women of various occupations and talents the break-up email she received from her lover. She asks each to reply with their interpretations and analyses of the message. For this exhibition Calle selected 22 of those perspectives, including views from an advertising executive, Talmudic exegete, philosopher, graphic designer, composer, clairvoyant, psychiatrist, curator, and accountant, as well as a Japanese bunraku puppet and a parrot. The method in which the acute pain of lost love is objectified and relativized in art is apparent in this work.
■Relevant information
・Roppongi Hills and Mori Art Museum 10th Anniversary Exhibition
"All You Need Is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku"
Friday, April 26 - Sunday, September 1, 2013
・"LOVE" in a Minute - Artist & Work
(1) Jeff Koons Sacred Heart
(2) Gohar Dashti Today's Life and War series
(3) Nan GoldinThe Ballad of Sexual Dependency series
(4) John Everett Millais Speak! Speak!
(5) Frida Kahlo My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (FamilyTree)
(6) Zhang Xiaogang Bloodline: The Big Family
(7) Kusama Yayoi Love Is Calling
(8) Shilpa Gupta I live under your sky too
(9) Hatsune Miku Hatsune Miku: Connecting Love
(10) Alfredo Jaar Embrace
(11) Robert Indiana Love & Gimhongsok Love
(12) Sophie Calle Take Care of Yourself
(13) Lovers painted by Chagall, Magritte and Picabia
(14) Tracey Emin I promise to love you
(15) David Hockney My Parents
(16) Damien Hirst Untitled
