Sophie Calle - Exquisite Pain

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This time, a book, bound outlined with shimmering red, just like a book she picked up one time that helped her deal with her suffering, just like the red telephone she stared at after she got the news.

She counts down to her suffering and while it's expected, the actual way it happened was unexpected. A poignant visual record of the obsessive nature of failed love by a leading French contemporary artist.The woman repeatedly recounts the story of the end of an affair; each time remembering it differ­ently, adding and subtracting details, finding new ways to both remember and forget what happened. Bonami did admit, however, that some of Hirst's more "gratuitous" works were omitted from the Doha exhibition.

I have never really been a massive fan of Damien Hirst, but upon reflection, I do – almost despite myself – actually like him.

I wanted to talk about him so much that it felt like something I’d seen on a TV show, and then maybe I wanted to make the TV show.