All the things we cannot know: Kenneth Baker on Sophie Calle in San Francisco

The French artist Sophie Calle's work almost always satisfies my basic requirements: that art has something to look at plus something to think about. She has worked across many media, but image, text and performance, often sub rosa, remain her principal instruments. She shows how dramatically viewer engagement and depth of content may vary when sheor anyonetries to bring those dimensions artfully into tension. In the process, she continually re-weaves thematic threads of attachment, loss and su