Sophie Calle
"Take Care Of Yourself"
I received an email telling me it was over.
I didn't know how to respond.
It was almost as if it hadn't been meant for me.
It ended with the words, "Take care of yourself."
And so I did.
I asked 107 women (including two made from wood and one with feathers),
chosen for their profession or skills, to interpret this letter.
To analyse it, comment on it, dance it, sing it.
Dissect it. Exhaust it. Understand it for me.
Answer for me.
It was a way of taking the time to break up.
A way of taking care of myself.
Take Care of Yourself was first presented at the French Pavillion in the 2007
http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/56
Sophie Calle's "Take Care Of Yourself"installation and exhibition piece portrays the idea of communication and research of ideas through personal contact in letters and art. The responses from the women she contacted include photographic portraits, textual analysis, and filmed performances based on their own professions. This meant that her work not only pictured her own thoughts and ideas on her breakup and ideologies of love but also other women's reaction to the same letter through art. This project shows ideas about love and heartache, gender and intimacy, labor and identity. The women from anthropology, criminology, philosophy, psychiatry, theater, opera, soap opera and many others each take on this letter, reading and re-reading it, performing it, transforming it, and pursuing the emotions it contains and elicits. This piece of work particularly inspires me because of the depth of work into this project, it also links to many ideas within art as well as Graphic Design due to the ideas of communication of concepts.
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