
Les Tombes 'Mother, Father'
1990
Two gelatin silver photographs capture the grave markers of Sophie Calle's mother and father, presenting the most intimate of subjects with the artist's characteristic documentary precision. Mounted on aluminium and housed in the artist's own frames, the diptych transforms private grief into a formal, quietly unsettling meditation on loss, memory, and familial bonds. Calle's unflinching gaze turns the act of mourning into an act of witness, collapsing the boundary between autobiography and art.
- Medium
- gelatin silver print mounted on aluminium, in artist's frame, in 2 parts
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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December 6, 2018
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