Yesterday, Paradoxical News was invited to yet another press showing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art to the north of Copenhagen. In connection with the opening of an exhibition with internationally acclaimed French photo artist Sophie Calle. Her works from the 70'ies on have sparked a lot of debate, because of her artistic methods. For instance in the 1979 Suite Venitienne, where she virtually stalked a man she had met at a party through Venice, photographing him in all sorts of situations without his knowing. Other works of art have focussed on the same theme of exposing privacy. Until a man, whose personal note and phone book she found, copied, and exposed artistically. His response was to demand a photo of her in the nude published a the newspaper. 
This time around, she exposes herself and a personal relationship with a man who breaks up with her. In the artistic experiment Prenez Soin de Vous/Take Care of Yourself, the ending phrase of a break up letter from her partner, she invited a long range of people from all walks of life to interpret his e-mailed break up letter - from their point of view and profession. For instance a lawyer, a semantic, a physicologist, a proof reader, several artistic performers, etc. Very different direct interpretations, variations, and comments come out of this experiment. She once inspired American author Paul Auster to base the character Maria in his novel Leviathan on her. But he added fictitious elements. Which she later took up - as an artistic passing of batons - and evolved into the character he described. As an artistic dialogue. A very interesting experiment would now be to see what the exposed break up man would get out of interpreting her and her latest artistic merit. For now, go see this paradoxical artist and her break up interpretations.
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