The first official Sophie Calle work of art:
In 1979, Sophie Calle asked several (23) persons, friends,
strangers, neighbors, to come and spend eight hours in her bed
in order to keep this bed occupied twenty-four hours a day. These
people had to consent to being photographed and to answer some questions.
She took photographs of the sleepers and noted the important
elements of these short meetings: subjects of discussion, positions during sleep, their movements during their sleep, the detailed
menu of their breakfast she was preparing for them... The whole
set of these series of photographs (23) was exhibited at the
XIth Biennale de Paris in 1980, Sophie Calle's first show, inspiring her to "become an artist."
