{"product_id":"9782365111171","title":"Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe haunting story of Sophie Calle’s mother, told through diary excerpts and family photographs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“She was called successively Rachel, Monique, Szyndler, Calle, Pagliero, Gonthier, Sindler,” reads the first lines of \u003ci\u003eSophie Calle: Rachel Monique\u003c\/i\u003e, embroidered on the cover. “My mother liked people to talk about her. Her life did not appear in my work, and that annoyed her. When I set up my camera at the bottom of the bed in which she lay dying—fearing that she would pass away in my absence, whereas I wanted to be present and hear her last words—she exclaimed, ‘Finally.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSophie Calle: Rachel Monique\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Monique Szyndler, Sophie Calle’s mother who died in 2007, through diary excerpts and photographs selected by the artist from family albums. Described as “haunting” and “a mystery novel that tirelessly searches for a missing person,” the \u003ci\u003eRachel Monique\u003c\/i\u003e project honors a daughter’s complicated relationship with her mother and the artist’s deeply felt grief. \u003cbr\u003eThis volume, presenting Calle’s installation of \u003ci\u003eRachel Monique\u003c\/i\u003e at the Palais de Tokyo, was designed in close collaboration with the artist. The cover text is embroidered to create a precious object, and all of the texts relating to the installation are beautifully embossed. \u003ci\u003eSophie Calle: Rachel Monique\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly personal and moving book, intimate and universal in its expressions of mourning and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions Xavier Barral","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061227634928,"sku":"9782365111171","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9782365111171_p0.jpg?v=1763761304","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9782365111171","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}