Some Artistic Practices in the Work of Sophie Calle

Presentation of a research project as part of the "Jeudis de la Maison Suger", a residents' research seminar.

This session will welcome Katerina Blasques Kaspar for a reflection on her research into Sophie Calle’s archival work, focusing on the theme "Some Artistic Practices in the Work of Sophie Calle".

Presentation of the project

"As part of a research stay devoted to mapping Sophie Calle's work, this presentation aims to list some recurring practices in the artist's work. Starting with an overview of her entire body of work, we will analyze gestures that mimic processes specific to the social sciences, particularly ethnography, as well as the borrowing of other practices outside the visual arts, such as her penchant for archiving. We will emphasize the difficulty of placing the artist in a single artistic category, as her practices are scattered across various creative fields, such as photography and writing, to mention only the main ones. On the one hand, we will present an overview of these practices through her most emblematic works. On the other hand, we will address the influence of methods that are unusually employed in artistic projects, which contribute to making Sophie Calle a multidisciplinary artist."

Speaker

Katerina Blasques Kaspar is a doctoral candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). She holds a Master’s degree from the same institution, focused on Paloma Vidal’s literary project Não escrever and its relationship to the thought of Roland Barthes. Her thesis examined Vidal’s literary approach, in which the book is conceived as “outside-itself” (hors-soi), and literature engages in dialogue with other artistic forms, particularly performance and photography. Her current doctoral research explores the notion of community within a selected corpus of works by Cristina Rivera Garza, Paloma Vidal, and Sophie Calle. She is supervised by Professor Claudia Amigo Pino (USP) and co-supervised by Professor Magali Nachtergael (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne).