法國當代概念藝術家~ Sophie Calle (蘇菲 卡爾)， 她絕對是怪人一枚， 某一次身處異鄉的Sophie忽然突發奇想，決定跟著一位陌生男子，記錄他時刻所做的每一件事，一整個星期跟隨的秘密行為，最終甚至跨洲過省依然不放棄，是這樣的一份令人發毛的堅持最終成為了藝術品，夠怪異不過亦令人拍掌。Sophie Calle著實是非一般的Conceptual Artist。
1984那一年Sophie30歲，當時她飛蛾撲火地熱戀於她的情人，也是父親的友人，從小女孩時她就隱隱地、遠遠地、偷偷地暗戀他，直到長大28歲她才決心表白誘惑，並且如願以償；那一年她必須告別情人三個月赴日實習，情人說：不要去，我沒有把握有耐心等妳，年輕的她執意遠行，於是他們相互約定三個月後在印度新德里相逢。
經過三個月自責、不安、思念、等待⋯各種焦躁情緒下，這一天她終於來到新德里皇家旅館261號房，然而情人卻突然來電說：「親愛的，我不能來了，我本想把妳擁在懷裡親口告訴妳一件事的。」
蘇菲一顆心往下墜，她顫抖著說：「你有了別的女人了。」
「是的，我遇到了另一個女人。」
「你是認真的嗎？」
「我希望我是。」
蘇菲絕望的放下電話，久久凝視著這具宣判戀情死刑的電話，環視這間陌生淒清孤寂旅館房間的雙人床，她感受到一陣撕裂的劇痛，並以為這個痛，要陪伴她一生了。
回到巴黎後，她將分手後之苦痛傷口昭然揭示，並反問她所見到的每個朋友：什麼是妳／你生命中最劇烈的苦痛呢？接著她用影像及文字，將自己與他人生命中至極之痛，烙印在作品裡，經過與這些朋友的交換苦痛，她心裡那個以為永遠無法複合的傷口，竟一點一滴愈合，並催生了她的藝術作品：《劇痛》（Exquisite Pain）。
Sophie Calle is a French artist who works with photographs and performances, placing herself in situations almost as if she and the people she encounters were fictional. She also imposes elements of her own life onto public places creating a personal narrative where she is both author and character. She has been called a detective and a voyeur and her pieces involve serious investigations as well as natural curiousity.
In 1980 Calle made a piece called 'Suite Vénitienne' in which she followed a man she had met at a party to Venice and continued to follow and photograph him there for two weeks.
The Hotel
A year later she returned to Venice where she got a temporary job as a chambermaid. She made a piece of work about her imagined ideas of who the hotel guests were, based on their personal belongings.
"For each room there was a photograph of the bed undone, of other objects in the room, and a description day by day of what I found there." Sophie Calle
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