“Ghosts Of Orsay” Mixed-Media Installation At d’Orsay Museum Until June 12, 2022

There once was a train station/hotel in Paris, across from the Tuileries Gardens on the Left Bank. As transportation modes shifted over the decades, the buildings gradually became abandoned. In the late 1970s, Sophie Calle explored the interior remains and decided to live in room 501 as a performance piece. She made photos, collected objects, documents, customer files, notes—whatever remained—for a few months.

Four decades later, Sophie returned to build a multi-media exhibition in what is now the d’Orsay Museum. If you wish to experience the desolation of the original stay, the stories, the creations, the poetry and the photography, you have until June to see "Lesphantoms of Orsay."

Photo illustration derived from Orsay (detail), 2020, from museum web page announcing the exhibition
©Orsay Museum / Sophie Crepy