The French artist Sophie Calle wins the Hasselblad Award 2010
© Photo by Sophie Calle. Picture of the series entitled "Prenez Soin de Vous", winner of the 2010 Hasselblad Award. The French artist Sophie Calle won first place in the 2010 Hasselblad Award, prestigious photography, this year at its 30. Edition, giving the winner some 100 000 euros. The award also offers the winner an opportunity to present a solo exhibition in 2010 at the headquarters of the Swedish institution, the Hasselblad Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden. Born in 1953 in Paris, where he continues to live, Sophie Calle has been prominent in the French conceptual art scene, having specialized in investigating and exposing traces of intimacy - his own or the other - a combination of biography, fiction and voyeurism. Considered innovative in its artistic language, the artist has sought to show human vulnerability in all its rawness and examine the relationship between identity and intimacy, analyzing the mechanisms of construction of official history. One example is the series winner of the 2010 Hasselblad Award, presented in 2007 at the Venice Biennale, entitled "Prenez Soin de Vous" (Take care of yourself), and inspired by a letter of breakup of a relationship he had received in 2005. The artist gave the text to 107 women of various ages and professions to try to interpret that phrase, filmed them, photographed them and the result was the work reported in various parts of the world. In Brazil, the series was exhibited in Sao Paulo, Salvador and Rio de Janeiro in the second half of 2009. The Hasselblad Award will be presented to Sophie Calle on 30 October 2010 at a ceremony to be held in the theater of Gothenburg. Source: LUSA
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