Publisher/Actes Sud

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Ghosts is a collection of works by French artist Sophie Calle. Beginning with personal experiences and relationships with others, Calle has explored the uncertainty of absence, memory, and seeing, shifting between words and images to create artworks that capture the very contours of events. This work focuses on the "non-existent work"—a painting lost from a museum—and, through the testimonies of exhibition room guards and other involved parties, embodies the images that remain in their memories. The photographs capture only blank walls and traces, while the accompanying narratives vaguely bring to light the image of a work that must have once existed. This quiet composition confronts us with the fact that seeing is always subjective and memory changes over time. This book demonstrates that photography, more than being "evidence" or "record," is an unstable medium linked to narrative and imagination, questioning the very human gaze when faced with something lost.