“In 2023, for an exhibition entitled ‘À toi de faire ma mignonne’, I took over Picasso museum.
The project Catalogue raisonné de l’inachevé occupied the top floor.
I began by listing all the projects I had completed since the start of my career—taking stock of my professional life.
Then I asked myself: What happens, when life ends, to the ideas that remain dormant—languishing in drawers, boxes…and coffins?
So I decided to inventory and analyze the sketches, the attempts, the abandonments.
To give life to intentions. To finish the unfinished.
However, either there was too much to read on the first three floors or the museum was about to close—but some visitors never made it to the fourth floor.
That’s why I wanted to organize a catch-up session at Perrotin Paris.” Sophie Calle
Born in Paris, France
Lives and works in Malakoff, France
Sophie Calle has been described as a conceptual artist, photographer, video artist, and even a detective. Since the late 1970s, she has beenthe subject of numerous exhibitions worldwide.
In her rituals, the artist blurs the boundaries between the intimate andthe public, reality and fiction, and art and life, all while allowing spacefor chance.
Internationally acclaimed, she represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and has exhibited in major museums across the globe, from the Centre Pompidou to the Tate Modern.
In 2023, Sophie Calle became the first artist to take over all the galleries of the Picasso Museum in Paris for a solo exhibition.She is the recipient of the 2010 Hasselblad Award.
In 2024, she was awarded the Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo—often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of the Arts”—in the "Painting" category. Her work is held in the collections of numerous prestigious institutions, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Louisiana Museum in Denmark.
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