The Hotel

The Hotel – In 1981, Sophie Calle was hired as a chambermaid in a Venetian hotel. Packing a microphone and camera into her cleaning cart, she begins to investigate the lives of the guests, monitoring the condition of their beds, reading their newspapers, books and postcards, smelling their perfumes and observing their clothes or carnival costumes. She ends up knowing their birth dates and blood types, their sexual habits. This work on intimacy and narration, present in the book Double Jeu, is published here separately for the first time.