Sophie Calle: Overshare

​Overshare is the first exhibition in North America to explore the range and depth of artist Sophie Calle’s (France, b. 1953) practice across the past five decades. Through examples of major bodies of work as well as lesser-known pieces, the exhibition captures Calle’s astute probing into the human condition and reveals ways that her early work anticipated the rise of social media as a space to create and share oneself. 

The presentation features photography, video, installations, and text-based works, highlighting the artist’s virtuosic use of different media to explore broadly recognizable and emotionally resonant themes.

Calle’s works often combine photographs, videos, texts, and objects to examine the complex nature of relationships, whether between partners, friends, family, or strangers. She actively erodes the boundaries between private and public space, thereby both bringing the audience into moments of personal intimacy as well as hinging on our voyeuristic preoccupations with other people’s lives. Across her career, Calle has continued to explore the dynamics inherent to relationships–love, trust, suspicion, intimacy, and power–and ways in which those forces also condition our sense and outward portrayal of our own identities. Her works feel particularly pressing and salient today as we continue to navigate the intractable presence of the digital realm in our lives.

Credit: Overview from museum website