His body has always been a tattoo of his experiences, of youthful violence, of illness, and of love. A work difficult to understand due to the bluntness of the ambiguous language used.
Known for the neon that declaim love, 40 years of works on display with around 100 works until 31 August 2026 at Tate Modern.
Photographs, paintings, neon, installations and provocative videos show personal dramas, which impress the visitor by provoking an emotional empathy that prompts reflections common to our existences.
The installation that made her famous is an absolute must-see (my bed, 1999) with the bed unmade, dirty and full of cigarette butts, food scraps, pregnancy tests and condoms, where he had sexual relations, even incestuous ones, for weeks, a candidate for Turner Prize, a sad glimpse of his unconventional existence.
“The Tracey Emin: a Second Life” It inaugurates Emin's new artistic season, overwhelmed by a botched abortion (due to the incompetence of doctors she openly criticizes) and a serious cancer. All her previous work is reinterpreted and opens up to Love, "the only reason to live," and to the desire to overcome personal wounds and share the common anxieties of all living beings with a more serene and less troubled expectation.
