Sophie Calle: Overshare

This catalog for the first American survey of French artist Sophie Calle, organized by Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center, is, like the show, titled ‘Overshare’ for good reason: Calle is something like a Conceptualist high priestess of TMI, voyeurism, and stalking. * Artnews *For five decades now, Sophie Calle has been probing human connection, emotional impulses, and vulnerability via fictional devices, dry humor, and an unapologetic impropriety. – Sheila Regan * Hyperallergic *Long a cult figure in France, Sophie Calle is admired in several disparate circles, each of which has a partial grasp of some aspect of her work —one thinks perhaps of Laurie Anderson by way of comparison. – Yves-Alain Bois * Artforum *With Calle, strangers become subjects in illicit scenes that challenge the traditional boundaries of the artist. – Tracy Doyle * Air Mail *The first major North American career survey for Calle, who has already been well celebrated in Paris, her hometown. – Hilarie M. Sheats * The New York Times *The largest-ever North American exhibition of work by a French photographer and conceptual artist who anticipated the boundary-blurring effect of social media. – Will Heinrich * The New York Times *