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Sophie Calle – Talking to Strangers:

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At the Whitechapel Gallery. The exhibition is based around a letter sent by a man to his girlfriend ending their relationship. Calle asked a variety of individuals to write a response - a teenager, a dancer, a school teacher, a journalist, an intelligence officer, a linguistics professor, a relationships councillor, etc. Each is photographed alongside their response. Also a wall of monitors running films of people performing responses.

Also Goshka Macuga’s The Nature of the Beast. “In 1939 the Gallery hosted Picasso’s Guernica, an outcry against Fascist war atrocities, to drum up support for the Republican forces fighting in Spain.” A life size tapestry of Guernica forms the backdrop to this show, like the one hanging in the United Nations HQ. In front is a circular glass topped meeting table displaying material from the anti-fascist demonstrations held in the East End in 1939.

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Posted: October 22nd, 2009
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  1. marco ammannati says:

    The thing that really caught my attention was the piece where she went to the Bronx and asked people to take them to a place that was important to them. This way she got to enter their life and their memories. I want to do something like that.

  2. Gareth says:

    Have you got something in mind Marco …?

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