Sophie Calle
Midnight Moment: Voir la mer
Meet the Artist
Sat, Oct 28
View Midnight Moment with Sophie Calle and enjoy a glass of hot cider. Arrive by 11:30pm for the 11:57pm viewing on Duffy Square (46th Street & Broadway).
New York Premiere
Sun, Oct 1-Tue, Oct 31
Nightly, 11:57pm-midnight
In Istanbul, a city surrounded by the sea, Sophie Calle met people who had never seen it. For Voir la mer, as Calle describes it, “I took them to the shore of the Black Sea. They came to the water’s edge, separately, eyes lowered, closed, or masked. I was behind them. I asked them to look out to the sea and then to turn back towards me to show me these eyes that had just seen it for the first time.” Magnified on Times Square’s electronic billboards, five of these intimate video portraits silently reveal their emotional response to this evocative experience.
Free and open to the public
Times Square
Screened on electronic billboards from 42nd-49th St,
Between Broadway and 7th Ave, NYC
Co-presented with Times Square Arts and Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC)
About the Artist
Since the late 1970’s, Sophie Calle—“France’s foremost conceptual artist” (The New York Times)—has been making provocative and often controversial work that confronts issues in her personal life. She is well-known for her sleuth-like explorations of human relationships, which have led her to follow strangers, and find work as a hotel chambermaid.
Calle’s work has been shown at international venues including the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, MoMA (New York), the Guggenheim Museum (New York), The Tate Gallery (London), Crossing the Line Festival 2011, and recently a site-specific installation in Greenwood Cemetery (Brooklyn) for Creative Time.