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Sophie Calle: The Sleepers
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Calles seminal 1979 series of people sleeping in her bed: now in EnglishIn one of Sophie Calles first artistic experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances and strangers to sleep in her bed. Twentyseven people agreed, among them a baker, a babysitter, an actor, a journalist, a seamstress, a trumpet player and three painters. Calle photographed them awake and asleep, secretly recording any private conversations once the door closed. She served each a meal, and, if they agreed, she subjected them to a questionnaire that probed their personal predilections, habits and dreams as well as their interpretations of the act of sleeping in her bed: a curiosity, a game, an artwork, oras Calle intended ita job. The result, comprising her first exhibition in 1979, was a grid of 198 photographs and short texts.Unlike the original installation, this artists book version of The Sleepers contains not only all the photographs and captions but also her engrossing, novellalike narrative, untranslated until now. From the single, liminal miseenscne of her bedroom, Calle reports in text and photos, as if in real time, as sleepers arrive, talk, sleep, eat and leave. Their acute and sometimes startling, sometimes endearing particularities merge into something almost like an eightdaylong dream. Many seeds of Calles subsequent works are embedded in The Sleepers: her exacting and transgressive methods of investigation, her cultivation of intimacy and remove, and her unrelenting curiosity. In this work, as she observes the sleepers, they observe her toowith reciprocal candor. The Sleepers, clothbound and pillowlike, unfolds as it opens, inviting the reader to join the others in Calles bed.
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