
Four Works: i) Father, Brother, Mother (The Graves #48); ii) Father, Mother (The Graves #25); iii) Grandpa, Grandma (The Graves #20); iv) Brother, Sister (The Graves #21)
Sophie Calle's four-part series presents silver gelatin photographs of grave markers, each bearing the tender familial inscriptions left by the bereaved — "Father, Brother, Mother," "Father, Mother," "Grandpa, Grandma," and "Brother, Sister." Framed in the artist's signature metal frames, the works form part of Calle's ongoing investigation into loss, memory, and the language of grief. The spare, intimate epithets become quietly devastating in their universality, collapsing personal mourning into collective human experience.
- Medium
- silver gelatin prints, in artist's metal frames, in four parts
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
March 8, 2013
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