Three Photography Exhibitions in Paris: Calle, Lorca Di Corcia, Hahnenkamp

Three concurrent photography exhibitions opened in Paris on October 27, 2001, at galleries in the same neighborhood. Sophie Calle's 'Changement d'adresse' at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin revisits her signature 'surveillance fiction' practice: the artist allowed gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin to follow her, reactivating the model of her earlier 'Suite Vénitienne'. The project is layered with a real disappearance—a young woman who, after a fire, began living 'like Sophie Calle'—blurring fact and fiction. At Galerie Almine Rech, Philip-Lorca diCorcia's 'Work for Hire' presents his street photography and fashion images (including work for W magazine) that expose the implicit violence of money, class, and gender dynamics. His subjects—WASP wives, Latin maids, bar women, Cuban chorus girls, Asian strippers—are trapped in glass vitrines and cages, their bodies fetishized yet revealing loss and precarity. At Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Maria Hahnenkamp's works use embroidery (pierced with needles or drills) as a metaphor for wound and scar, addressing the historical subjugation of women. Her latest series shifts from white to red monochrome, compressing bodies against plexiglass, except in a quadriptych where bodies finally embrace in a 'sumptuous choreography of incarnadine'.