Sophie Calle: Blind

With Blind, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle (born 1953) revisits three earlier works constructed around the idea of blindness. In Les Aveugles ( The Blind ), created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their representation of beauty; in 1991, in La Couleur Aveugle ( Blind Color ), she asked blind people about their imagination of perception and compared their descriptions to artists musings on the monochrome; La Derni re Image ( The Last Image ), produced in 2010 in Istanbul, involved questioning people who had lost their sight on the last image they could remember. By establishing a dialectic between the testimonies of several generations of blind people and Calle s photographs based on these accounts, the artist offers readers a reflection on absence, on the loss of one sense and the compensation of another and on the notion of the visible and the invisible.