A careerspanning survey of the adored French artist whose conceptual works explore the tensions between the observed the reported the secret and the unsaidThis volume accompanies the eponymous show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis which is the first exhibition in North America to explore the range and depth of artist Sophie Calles practice across the past five decades. Through examples of major bodies of work as well as lesserknown pieces the exhibition captures Calles 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 textbased works highlighting the artists virtuosic use of different mediums to explore broadly recognizable and emotionally resonant themes. Organized into four thematic sectionsThe Spy The Protagonist The End and The Beginningthe book takes a new approach to some of Calles most acclaimed works including The Sleepers 1979 and Suite Vnitienne 1980 while also weaving in understudied works including Cash Machine 19912003 and Unfinished 2005. The catalog further explores this new examination of Calles work with original writing by Henriette Huldisch Eugenie Brinkeman Aruna DSouza and Courtenay Finn.Sophie Calle born 1953 is an internationally renowned artist whose controversial works often fuse conceptual art and Oulipolike constraints investigatory methods and the plundering of autobiography. The Whitechapel Gallery in London organized a retrospective in 2009 and her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art New York the Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh the Museum of Fine Arts Boston the Hayward Gallery and Serpentine London and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago among others. She lives and works in Paris.