Sophie Calle is a contemporary French Conceptual artist known for her explorations of personal relationships and chance events. Working across photography, film, and text, her oft-controversial projects involve thorough documentation of other people’s lives and her interactions with them, as seen in her work Suite Vénitienne (1980) wherein the artist followed a stranger from Paris to Venice and documented the experience. “Establishing rules and following them is restful. If you follow someone, you don't have to wonder where you're going to eat,” she explained of her process. “They take you to their restaurant. The choice is made for you.” Born on October 9, 1953 in Paris, France, Calle studied with the famed cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard...