Consume a book: Tracey Emin, Borrowed Light

The book is a catalogue of Emin’s contribution to the Venice Biennale exhibition called Borrowed Light .  The book included essays that contributed to the catalogue. There is also an essay for the leaflet and an interview with Tracey Emin within the content.

The essays within the exhibition catalogue give the Reader a variety of versions of Tracy Emin. The common thread through these contributions are the way Emin’s revelations about herself are actually revelations about us all. As Rudi Fuchs reveals about the effect Emin’s work has on him.
“I know what it tells me and so do you. It is a universal feeling like all sincere feelings when you are attentive you can be very close to that.” (Emin, 2007)

Toby Forward says in his essay entitled Naked and Unashamed, that, “Tracey’s work is about me” (Emin, 2007).
Both these men are happy to identify themselves with the feelings that Emin expresses,  this suggest the work cuts across sex, gender and age. The essays suggest that her work is about being human rather than simply about the female experience.

Emin, T., 2007. Borrowed Light. [Art] (British Pavilion 52nd Venice Biennale).