Take Care of Yourself

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"Take Care of Yourself" is a conceptual art project by Sophie Calle in which she invited dozens of women to interpret and respond to a breakup email she received, transforming personal heartbreak into a collective, multi-voiced artwork.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork
conceptual art project
basedOn breakup email
countryOfOrigin France
creator Sophie Calle NERFINISHED
documentation book
catalogue
exhibitedAt French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale NERFINISHED
Venice Biennale NERFINISHED
exhibitionType installation
genre conceptual art
contemporary art
hasPart audio recordings
photographic portraits
printed texts
video recordings
inception 2007
language French
medium multimedia installation
photography
text
video
method collecting and displaying multiple readings of the same text
inviting women to interpret a breakup email
movement contemporary French art
narrativeLocation email correspondence
notableFeature multi-voiced responses to a single email
transformation of private correspondence into public artwork
use of professional and non-professional interpreters
numberOfParticipants dozens of women
over 100 women
participantRole academics
actresses
children
dancers
lawyers
librarians
psychologists
singers
writers
publicationForm artist book
theme authorship
breakup
collective interpretation
emotional labor
female solidarity
intimacy and distance
representation of women
romantic relationships

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Sophie Calle notableWork Take Care of Yourself