Publisher/Editions Xavier Barral

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"Rachel, Monique" is an artist's book by Sophie Calle (1953-), one of France's leading contemporary artists. Calle, who has created works using photographs, text, and her own unique rules to depict the pursuit of others, private memories, chance, and loss, confronts the life and death of her mother, Monique Sindrel, in this work. Her mother, who was dissatisfied that she did not appear in her daughter's works, reportedly reacted with "Finally" when Calle set up the camera on her deathbed. Calle traces her mother's life through her diaries, family album photographs, and her own photographs and words, reconstructing the complex and intimate relationship between mother and daughter and the memory of loss. The video "Pas pu saisir la mort (Couldn't Capture Death)," which documented her mother's final moments, was also presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale and later developed into "Rachel, Monique." The book has a beautiful design with a white cloth cover, text embroidered in gold thread, and embossed text inside. This is one of Call's representative works, in which, while attempting to document his mother, he brings to light the elusive concepts of "death" and "absence." Published in 2017, this is a rare English edition.