This is the first collection in Japan to feature the masterpieces of French contemporary artist Sophie Calle.

The exhibition includes Sophie Calle's installation Grand Bouquet (2020), inspired by Odilon Redon's gigantic pastel painting Grand Bouquet (owned by Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum of Art), the series Because, which explores the interplay between text and photography, What Do You See, which asks questions about empty picture frames, Imprisoned Picasso, which photographs a Picasso work covered by paper, and Looking at the Sea, a video work that films people in Istanbul seeing the sea for the first time.

The text parts, which play an important role in Sophie Calle's work, have been translated into Japanese, and the book has been specially bound with a folded section, among other ingenious ideas for how the work is presented on paper.

This book was published as the official catalog for the exhibition "Absence: Toulouse-Lautrec and Sophie Calle," which will be held at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum of Art (Tokyo) from November 2024.

这是日本首个以法国当代艺术家索菲·卡尔的杰作为特色的藏品展。

此次展览包括索菲·卡尔的装置作品《大花束》（2020年），该作品的灵感来源于奥迪隆·雷东的巨幅粉彩画《大花束》（藏于三菱一号馆美术馆）、探索文本与摄影之间相互作用的系列作品《因为》、对空画框提出疑问的《你看到了什么》、拍摄被纸覆盖的毕加索作品的《被囚禁的毕加索》，以及拍摄伊斯坦布尔人们首次看海场景的视频作品《看海》。

在索菲·卡尔的作品中起重要作用的文字部分已被翻译成日语，并且这本书采用了带有折叠插页的特殊装订方式，还有其他关于作品在纸上呈现方式的巧妙构思。

这本书是2024年11月起在三菱一号馆美术馆（东京）举办的“缺席：图卢兹-劳特累克与索菲·卡尔”展览的官方图录。