Sophie Calle

He loves me not

What do you do when your boyfriend dumps you by email? cry? lash out? spend weeks in your pj's eating ice cream? plot ways in which to kill him? down vodka and drown your sorrows hoping he'll realise what a shit he was and change his mind? Well if you're like Sophie Calle, you get even..

I received an email telling me it was over.
I didn't know how to respond.
It was almost as if it hadn't been meant for me.
It ended with the words, "Take care of yourself."
And so I did.
I asked 107 women (including two made from wood and one with feathers),
chosen for their profession or skills, to interpret this letter.
To analyze it, comment on it, dance it, sing it.
Dissect it. Exhaust it. Understand it for me.
Answer for me.
It was a way of taking the time to break up.
A way of taking care of myself.