“On monday, february 16, 1981, I was hired as a temporary chambermaid for three weeks in a Venetian hotel. I was assigned twelve bedrooms on the fourth floor. In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the personal belongings of the hotel guests. On friday, march 6, the job came to an end.” (quoted in Calle, pp.140-1.) Using her position as a chambermaid, Calle created factual documentation along with her personal response to the people whose lives she glimpsed by examining their belongings. Each text begins with the chambermaid / artist’s first entry into the room and a notation of which bed or beds have been slept in, with a description of the nightwear the guests have left. Calle’s snooping in room 29 reveals that its occupants are a honeymoon couple. She describes finding ‘a small hardcover notebook with the inscription: “ricordo matrimonio” (wedding souvenir).