Mobilizing the Archive in Sophie Calle’s "À toi de faire, ma mignonne"

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https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-6385.151361

Abstract

This article offers an analysis of Sophie Calle’s exhibition À toi de faire, ma mignonne, held from October 2023 to January 2024 at the Musée Picasso in Paris, through the lens of archival theory. It advances the hypothesis that each floor of the exhibition mobilizes, in its own way, specific dimensions of archival practice. The discussion draws on Marques (2015), Didi-Huberman (2015), and Derrida (2001), addressing concepts such as anarchivism, anachronism, mal d’archive, and the archival drive. Rather than relying on in situ observation, the analysis focuses on the exhibition’s own archival materials: catalogues and audiovisual records, digitally available on the museum’s website.

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Larissa Fontenelle Gontijo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutoranda em Estudos Literários na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e Mestre pela mesma instituição com bolsa CAPES.

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2026-06-15

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GONTIJO, Larissa Fontenelle. Mobilizing the Archive in Sophie Calle’s "À toi de faire, ma mignonne". Cadernos do IL, [S. l.], n. 70, p. 196–214, 2026. DOI: 10.22456/2236-6385.151361. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/cadernosdoil/article/view/151361. Acesso em: 10 sep. 2026.

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Artigos de estudos literários