Sophie Calle's voyeuristic portraits of hotel rooms

Sophie Calle's voyeuristic fascination with the lives of others inspired The Hotel, a project she executed in the early 1980s while working as a chambermaid at a hotel in Venice, Italy. Each work in the series is a portrait of a room she was assigned to clean, including photographs of the bed and personal belongings she found there, and a text by the artist offering her imaginative impression of the absent guests.

[@tramagestual]

I find it oddly interesting and creative

[@GPTMagana]

could not agree more!

[@wylie_photo]

There is a discomfort in watching this video, with her obsession over another person and their life. On one level, it certainly makes me think about the topics of stalking, privacy and the intrusion. So, in that regard, it makes for 'good' art as it stimulates me to ask questions and reflect. However, I can't help also but think "what if she were a man doing the same thing?" Again, that just raises more questions in my mind about the work and the process. Ethically challenging, but intriguing and thought provoking nonetheless.

[@lsamoa]

Great. Now we're made complicit in her stalking.

[@DatDemonLadyRose666]

Though the art is slightly wierd and unethical to say the least, I see where she's getting at with wondering what others use different rooms for. Though if I where to do something like this, I probably would have taken more precortions with how I went about documenting the room after use.
But overall the piece she presented is a good documentation of the life of an individual, and has good insight of what said individual's mindset was at the time.

[@NoSomosAmigos]

Amazing :)

[@Raeredvelvet]

this is...kind of terrible but still interesting nonetheless

[@Bavubuka]

Slightly problematic.

[@cheddarbaby]

wow, this is insanely unethical... Maybe stalking people and illegally documenting their personal belongings isn't a good art piece.

[@TREV9309]

This is forbidden by law lol

[@a.e.r.7745]

I used to work at a motel, as a teenager, cleaning; became assistant manager. I guess she thought she was being creative. Totally unethical and stalking. I am surprised. It's like theft, sorry.

[@GPTMagana]

Sophie wasn't paid to make art like that. She was paid by her "title" at that time. But looking at her work; I started to liked and become intrigued with Sophie Calle's work.

[@a.e.r.7745]

@@GPTMagana I'm glad you enjoyed it. I didn't mean any offense. I find it offensive as that would be an unethical thing to do with a job as a maid.

[@GPTMagana]

​@@a.e.r.7745 No worries, pardon my tone. I did not mean to comes across as sarcastic.
Calle's duty as a chambermaid was a short term job for her. So, I had a hunch that her body of works of guest's articles and intimate pieces at a hotel was in her desires of making pictures of, circa 1981. Her desire of making pictures was mentioned in her interviews on Calle's that's posted on CZcams.