Asbestos Hall

Sophie Calle’s studio (2009)
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What images keep you company in the space where you work? In my studio there is a stuffed giraffe that I bought when my mother died, to replace her. Her name is Monique too, and she looks at me from on high with sadness and irony, just like my mother did.
I don’t think my mother would have chosen to return as a stuffed giraffe in the studio of her daughter, but she is dead.

Friday 12/4/2009

1:11pm (1 note)

art; calle; taxidermy; death; reincarnation;

Sophie Calle’s studio (2009)

What images keep you company in the space where you work?
In my studio there is a stuffed giraffe that I bought when my mother died, to replace her. Her name is Monique too, and she looks at me from on high with sadness and irony, just like my mother did.

I don’t think my mother would have chosen to return as a stuffed giraffe in the studio of her daughter, but she is dead.