Ana Cristina Cesar and Sophie Calle: clues and clues

Abstract

In Ana Cristina Cesar and Sophie Calle: clues and clues, the focus is given to the detective aspect of the works of Sophie Calle and Ana Cristina Cesar. The works Detective (CALLE, 1980) and Suite Vétinienne (1984), both by the artist Sophie Calle, are associated with Poe's Man in the Crowd (2010) and Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life (2010). The author Hugo Friedrich in Structure of the modern lyric (1991) has the role of helping the reading of works by Ana C. and Calle from their reflection on the Baudelairean method of “fantasy guided by the intellect” and “enthusiastic excitement” designed by Edgar Allan Poe. Ana Cristina Cesar's poetics is placed in the detective aspect when the poet cites several references in the body of her text leaving clues for her readers to identify (or not) excerpts from poems, works of art, songs, among others that she points out in her poetics.