Sophie CALLE

“In 2023, for an exhibition entitled ‘À toi de faire ma mignonne’, I took over Picasso museum. The project Catalogue raisonné de l’inachevé occupied the top floor. I began by listing all the projects I had completed since the start of my career—taking stock of my professional life. Then I asked myself: What happens, when life ends, to the ideas that remain dormant—languishing in drawers, boxes…and coffins? So I decided to inventory and analyze the sketches, the attempts, the abandonments. To give life to intentions. To finish the unfinished. However, either there was too much to read on the first three floors or the museum was about to close—but some visitors never made it to the fourth floor. That’s why I wanted to organize a catch-up session at Perrotin Paris.” Sophie Calle