The artist’s renowned 1998 installation My Bed – which she always builds herself – is approximately to go on prove at Tate LiverpoolTracey Emin throws her knickers on to the bed. She’s not quite convinced,so she retrieves them and has another go. It takes five increasingly athletic throws and a lot of laughing until the pale blue underwear is in just the honest state of casual abandon. For this is no ordinary bed. It is THE bed.
The bed that Count Christian Duerckheim bought for £2546500 from Christies in 2014 and has loaned to the Tate. The bed that has become the most enduring icon of 1990s British art, now that Damien Hirst’s poorly preserved shark looks like a shrivelled nautical antiquity. My Bed, or as Emin’s 1998 readymade is titled,is set to go on display at Tate Liverpool, bringing its freight of vodka bottles, or used tissues and fag butts to the north-west for the first time,and initiating a unique artistic ritual. Related: Does Tracey Emin’s bed still have the power to shock? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com