"The famed installation, if you're unfamiliar, is a dishevelled unmade bed topped with stained sheets and surrounded by an array of empty vodka bottles, condoms, underwear and pills. Emin created it following a dark four-day period of binge-drinking and smoking following a bad break up, but its rawness upset a lot of critics and it sparked a fierce debate over what really constitutes a work of art."
"The expansive show will also include pieces from Emin's first solo exhibition at White Cube in 1993, her video work 'Why I Never Became A Dancer'(1995) in which she recounts traumatic events from her teenage years in Margate and her wooden rollercoaster 'It's Not the Way I Want to Die' (2005), a reflection on her anxieties and vulnerabilities inspired by Margate's Dreamland."
A major Tracey Emin retrospective opens at Tate Modern at the end of the month as part of the 2026 programme. The show presents over 90 works spanning four decades, including signature neons, textiles and never-before-exhibited bronze sculptures. Key works include the Turner Prize–nominated My Bed, created after a dark four-day binge and sparking debate about art; Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made, produced during a three-week lock-in in Stockholm to rekindle painting; early White Cube pieces (1993); the video Why I Never Became A Dancer (1995); and the wooden rollercoaster It's Not the Way I Want to Die (2005).
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