Excerpt from “The Sleepers”, by Sophie Calle. Translated into English by Emma Ramadan, and published by Siglio Press, 2024 . Find out about our latest stories first ...

The 27 sleepers reward Calle with a raw intimacy. They are captured deep in sleep, feet flung out from under the covers, or caught on waking, startled by her photographs, Calle's voyeurist detective ...

Artist Sophie Calle is something of a sleuth. The French conceptual artist, who works primarily in photography, writing and video, is fascinated with the lives of others. However, she also hyper ...

That was the birth of “The Sleepers,” a 1979 project in which 28 friends, neighbors and strangers took turns sleeping in Calle’s bed, allowing her to observe and photograph them.

Sophie Calle; The sleepers (Bob Garison, third sleeper) (10 works), 1980; 15.2 x 20 cm. (6 x 7.9 in.) close. Medium b/w photographs Size 15.2 x 20 cm. (6 x 7.9 in.) Edition Dummy thicc text, amirite?

For The Sleepers (1979), she invited a series of friends and strangers, ... “Sophie Calle: Overshare,” at the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis (through January 26, 2025).

In “The Sleepers,” 1979, French artist Sophie Calle becomes curiously obsessed with watching people sleep, so she invites them to her apartment and invites them to sleep in her bed for eight ...

In Calle’s first public exhibition, “The Sleepers,” from 1979, the paradox of her gaze, its transgressive curiosity and its cool remove, is already apparent.

In 1979, French writer, photographer and artist Sophie Calle invited friends and strangers to sleep in her bed, with the intention of photographing them and recording their movements, including their ...