{"id":59316,"date":"2022-08-10T19:14:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/sophie-calle-because-blind\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:42:38","slug":"sophie-calle-because-blind","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/sophie-calle-because-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Calle: Because\u2014The Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I met people who were born blind. Who had never seen. I asked them what their image of beauty was.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><cite>\u2014Sophie Calle<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>In 1986, French artist Sophie Calle introduced herself to people attending an institute for the blind in Paris\u00a0and asked if she might speak with them on the subject of beauty. Calle photographed each person she interviewed and also assembled photographs of one to three scenes or things they named as beautiful. The conversations took a deeply personal nature, as Calle made clear in excerpts she typed up and framed alongside the photographs. The final work, comprising 23 conversations and\u00a0more than 80 images, debuted at a Los Angeles gallery in 1989.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the Art Institute acquired the only complete version of\u00a0<em>The Blind<\/em>\u00a0in English\u2014the one first shown more than 30 years earlier in Los Angeles.\u00a0Alongside this classic early work, this presentation includes examples from Calle\u2019s recent series,\u00a0<em>Because<\/em>, in which she details her personal reasons for making certain photographs over the years; these reasons are embroidered on wool cloths that visitors must lift to see the pictures in question.\u00a0<em>Because\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Blind\u00a0<\/em>show in complementary ways the coyly provocative spirit that animates Sophie Calle\u2019s investigations, and which she continues to put forth in new ways four decades into her career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":59314,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[236,218],"app_city_tax":[223],"app_event_type":[242],"class_list":["post-59316","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-museums","app_discipline-visual-arts","app_city_tax-chi","app_event_type-exhibition"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sophie Calle: Because\u2014The Blind - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/sophie-calle-because-blind\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sophie Calle: Because\u2014The Blind - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I met people who were born blind. 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