Thursday, 26 April 2001
Tracey Emin, the leading member of the studiedly controversial Young British Artists, presented her first solo exhibition in London for four years yesterday.
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Tracey Emin, the leading member of the studiedly controversial Young British Artists, presented her first solo exhibition in London for four years yesterday.
Once more using her own life as an art form in itself, she showed embroideries containing details of her sexual experiences, a video of the artist trying to meet her mother and a helter skelter as a throwback to her childhood days in Margate, Kent. The last was one of the very few new works in the exhibition. But the venue for the exhibition, the White Cube2 Gallery in the East End of London, was, she claimed, notable.
Emin said: "This shows that artists are moving from the West End of London to the East End. There is a new community springing up here."
The exhibition is entitled "You Forgot To Kiss My Soul" with the reproduction of the Margate helter skelter at the centre of the gallery. Honey Luard, of White Cube2, explained that it was "a fairly self-explanatory statement about the symbolism of the helter-skelter to life".
Emin, who last year sold her bed with its dirty linen to the art collector Charles Saatchi for £150,000 and then her reconstituted Whitstable beach hut to him for £ 75,000, says of her home town: "Being a virgin bride in Margate was not an option. You got broken into."
Emin's tent exhibit entitled Everyone I Have Slept With 1963-1995 contained the scrawled names of people she had slept with, including friends and relatives and sexual partners. It is not included in the new exhibition. Instead visitors can see a papier mâché Concorde, three new appliqued blankets, some neon displays, drawings and two videos, one of a conversation between Emin and her mother.
Emin was a Turner Prize nominee in 1999 and was recently awarded the eighth Cairo International Biennale Jury Prize.
Her home town, meanwhile, is trying to raise £13m for a Turner centre, which would show some of her works and those by contemporary Kent artists. Emin could yet see some of her works exhibited alongside those of Turner.
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