OCMA (Orange County Museum of Art)

For the past five decades, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle has mined her own life to provocative effect. Drawing on intimate relationships and chance encounters, Calle’s work has anticipated the personality-driven, voyeuristic nature of contemporary culture. Comprising photography, text, video, and installation work, Sophie Calle: Overshare marks the first North American survey to display the breadth and depth of Calle’s artistic career, capturing the ways in which her early work anticipated the rise of social media as a space to shape and present lived experience. With the artist at its center, Sophie Calle: Overshare offers an extended rumination on the paradoxes of self-disclosure, raising complicated questions about surveillance and the ethics of intrusion. Calle taps into our own prying curiosities, asking us to question our own presentations of self, alongside that of others.

 

Sophie Calle: Overshare is organized by the Walker Art Center and curated by Henriette Huldisch, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs; with Erin McNeil, Manager of Curatorial Affairs, and Brandon Eng, Curatorial Assistant, Visual Arts. OCMA’s presentation is coordinated by Courtenay Finn, Chief Curator & Director of Programs.