The Tate Modern describes Tracy Emin as ‘one of the most important contemporary artists of her generation’. Since her Turner Prize nomination of ‘My Bed’ in the 1990’s ‘her disregard for any separation of the personal and the public, along with her commitment to unapologetic self-expression, came to define a historic moment in British culture and global art history’.
The exhibition at the Tate Modern exposes 40 years of her groundbreaking practice alongside new works that include painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture, and installation, Emin uses the ‘female body as a powerful tool to explore passion, pain, and healing’.
An art critic wrote ‘Don’t come here looking for a good time – you won’t find it. But come looking for pure, unapologetic, undiluted, full-frontal love, grief, heartache and sadness, and you will end up feeling more feelings than you’ve probably felt for years’. Not wrong!
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