"Another massive exhibition to get in your diaries for next year, to go along with David Hockney, Schiaparelli, Henry Moore and the Bayeux Tapestry, is the massive survey of Dame Tracey Emin at Tate Modern. Opening in February, the exhibition, the biggest of Emin's career, will feature over 90 works, including paintings, videos, neons, sculptures and textiles, showcasing the way she uses art and the female body to explore love, passion, trauma and healing."
"The show will open with her early work, including tiny photographs of her art school paintings from the 1980s, which she destroyed during a difficult period of her life, from her first solo exhibition at White Cube, and a video in which she recounts traumatic events from her teenage years in Margate. Many pieces connected to Margate, where she now lives and has free studio-based art school, will feature in the exhibition, alongside works that address her experience of sexual assault and abortion."
"Her seminal installations, 'Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made' and the Turner-Prize nominated 'My Bed', act as a bridge from Emin's first life to her post-illness and surgery second life. This second life is represented with her large-scale paintings, and pieces that explore her experiences of cancer, surgery and disability, including her 2024 bronze sculpture 'Ascension' and a new documentary showing the stoma she now lives with."
Tracey Emin's Tate Modern survey 'A Second Life' opens in February and presents over 90 works spanning forty years, including paintings, videos, neons, sculptures and textiles. The exhibition contains early pieces such as tiny photographs of destroyed art school paintings and a video recounting teenage trauma in Margate, alongside work from the White Cube show. Many Margate-connected pieces appear, including explorations of sexual assault and abortion. Seminal installations 'Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made' and 'My Bed' bridge Emin's pre-illness and post-surgery life. The show presents large-scale paintings, 2024 bronze 'Ascension', and a documentary revealing the artist's stoma.
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