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Sophie Calle: Overshare

Sophie Calle, Mother–Father, 2018.

Jan 30 – May 24, 2026
3333 Avenue of the Arts Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Sophie Calle is a photographer, writer, filmmaker, exhibitionist, detective, and spy. Given her ambiguous relationship with privacy law, she’s also been called a thief and a stalker. Unfettered by public opinion and legal claims, Calle, Paris-born and now 72, insists that she’s just an artist. The protagonist of her own stories, she is both memoirist and voyeur, unsentimentally peeling back the layers of a life and urging us to peek inside. Although Calle has no formal artistic training, she does nod to the French literary movement of the 1960s, Oulipo, in the way she devises arbitrary sets of constraints and lets chance dictate the outcome. “Sophie Calle: Overshare” is a survey of her provocative genre-defying work. —Tracy Doyle

Photo: courtesy the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York /ADAGP, Paris.

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