If truth is an unmade bed, Tracey Emin has pulled back the sheets. Since the early 1990s, Emin’s insistence on honesty, at times brutal, has been the subject of much controversy. The works in this exhibition, Emin’s largest ever in Italy, reflect her complex relationship with the female body and the inescapable facts of loneliness and desire. New work is presented both indoors and outdoors. The centerpiece of the show is Emin’s massive bronze sculpture from 2024, I Followed You to The End. Positioned on its knees, low to the ground, the figure is headless and armless, stranded in vulnerable immobility. Emin worked on it while reeling from her diagnosis of bladder cancer. In the Renaissance courtyard, look for a reconstruction of her seminal 1996 installation, Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made. —Elena Clavarino
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Tracey Emin: Sex and Solitude
Tracey Emin, ”It—didnt stop—I didnt stop,” 2019
When
Mar 16 – July 20, 2025
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Photo: © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
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