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| Breaking up is hard, particularly if you’re breaking up with Sophie Calle. |
… and via email. In poorly constructed prose. Prenez Soin de Vous (Take Care of Yourself) is an encyclopaedia of heartbreak with 107 entries. Calle constructed her tome by raising an army of women inviting each to respond to the said break-up email in the language of their profession. The language of the author is somewhat lacking as is, unfortunately, Levis Short Jeans, his sense of self. And so the linguists immediately claw at the enemy’s grammatical misgivings, the analysts and therapists at those of his character and the token parrot (yes, a genuine bird) literally claws up a print out of the email into a finely shredded mess.
Something that the book itself certainly isn’t. Originally accompanying an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2009/10 the project feels far more at home in the intimate one-to-one book medium than enlarged and spread out across the gallery walls, although the content is identical. The book is a gloriously shiny pink fetish object,itself something to be taken care of. The production values are flawless; rich gloss images, heavy matte paper and dainty inserts serve as if to highlight the ineptitude of it’s bumbling raison d’etre, the ex within.
A better term may be the ex without, Prenez Soin de Vous is perhaps the most charming character assassination ever conceived of (perhaps you can guess what the rifle-shooter did to her print out of the email). It’s the kind of assassination you can enjoy at home, levis short jeans men, in private with the sense of frisson akin to opening up someone else’s diary.
Never one to keep her private life, or that of others, private – Calle has previously invited strangers into her bed, photocopied a diary found in the street, phoned the numbers within to assemble a portrait of the unknown owner and then published details of her investigations in a national newspaper. Threats of litigation ensued, but that’s another story.
Prenez Soin de Vous is the same sad story told a hundred different ways amongst which there are flashes of ingenuity; the clown who manages to make the use of brackets in the email hysterical, the cartoonist’s depiction of the moment the email is sent and received and the chess player’s interpretation on the board, the black side resigning, levis short jeans kids, the king lying down.
The journalist’s assertion that ‘the letter interests nobody’ comes with a degree of irony. The letter has clearly interested many, far too many. The responses have interested me far too much; the children’s story, the tarot reading, the musical compositions and performances are artworks of themselves. Each is a welcome distraction from the true tragedy of Calle’s endeavour: the collective number of she-hours put in to a project whose catalyst was most likely run off by a man in a few minutes, that after decades of feminism it’s still all about the man.
Something that the book itself certainly isn’t. Originally accompanying an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2009/10 the project feels far more at home in the intimate one-to-one book medium than enlarged and spread out across the gallery walls, although the content is identical. The book is a gloriously shiny pink fetish object,itself something to be taken care of. The production values are flawless; rich gloss images, heavy matte paper and dainty inserts serve as if to highlight the ineptitude of it’s bumbling raison d’etre, the ex within.
A better term may be the ex without, Prenez Soin de Vous is perhaps the most charming character assassination ever conceived of (perhaps you can guess what the rifle-shooter did to her print out of the email). It’s the kind of assassination you can enjoy at home, levis short jeans men, in private with the sense of frisson akin to opening up someone else’s diary.
Never one to keep her private life, or that of others, private – Calle has previously invited strangers into her bed, photocopied a diary found in the street, phoned the numbers within to assemble a portrait of the unknown owner and then published details of her investigations in a national newspaper. Threats of litigation ensued, but that’s another story.
Prenez Soin de Vous is the same sad story told a hundred different ways amongst which there are flashes of ingenuity; the clown who manages to make the use of brackets in the email hysterical, the cartoonist’s depiction of the moment the email is sent and received and the chess player’s interpretation on the board, the black side resigning, levis short jeans kids, the king lying down.
The journalist’s assertion that ‘the letter interests nobody’ comes with a degree of irony. The letter has clearly interested many, far too many. The responses have interested me far too much; the children’s story, the tarot reading, the musical compositions and performances are artworks of themselves. Each is a welcome distraction from the true tragedy of Calle’s endeavour: the collective number of she-hours put in to a project whose catalyst was most likely run off by a man in a few minutes, that after decades of feminism it’s still all about the man.
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