Publisher/Actes Sud

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"True Stories" by French artist Sophie Calle. Calle has always straddled the boundaries between her personal and creative lives, reconstructing events into narratives. This collection features short anecdotes she has recorded over the years, interwoven with photographs. Seemingly insignificant personal experiences—travel, romance, breakups, chance encounters—are presented through succinct text and restrained images, intentionally blurring the line between fact and staged imagery. Rather than explaining events, the photographs function as fragments of memory and emotional afterimages, prompting readers to contemplate the "way" in which the stories are told, rather than their authenticity. While taking the form of a self-confession, what is being questioned here is not the individual's personal history itself, but the uncertainty of "truth" that changes the moment it is recounted to another. The composition, in which photographs and text are juxtaposed equally, is emblematic of Calle's consistent practice, quietly questioning how private experiences can be transformed into public narratives.