The work of Sophie Calle and Sophie Rickett both reflect postmodernist approaches to the narrative although their work is very different. However, the one aspect of their work is similar: the use of images, text, videos, and other media.
In her project “Take Care of Yourself”, Sophie Calle takes a letter received from her boyfriend in which he “dumps” her, and offers it to 107 women asking them to analyse the content according to their personal and professional interests. As a result the letter was converted into music, displayed complete with handwritten annotations, projected onto images of faces, acted out, converted into a crossword. The whole was an unstructured but meaningful display which reflects the postmodern approach to art. She recorded an interview, currently available on the Tate.org website, explaining how the project developed.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sophie-calle-2692/sophie-calle-dumped-email [accessed 3/4/2020]
Sophie Rickett developed her exhibition “Objects in the Field” following an encounter with a retired astronomer, Dr Roland Willstrop, while she was working at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Dr Willstrop had previously developed a camera: The Three Mirror Telescope. No longer in use, Rickett obtained a selection of now obsolete images, reprinted them herself, editing some in the process. The result is a set of images and videos displayed in an unstructured way. The title of the exhibition, Objects in the Field refers to the atrological term for a light in the sky, object, and the sky itself, field.
Context and Narrative 