Keep Me Safe
A glowing neon work by Tracey Emin, *Keep Me Safe* renders an intimate, hand-written phrase in luminous light, evoking both vulnerability and longing. The cursive lettering, characteristic of Emin's deeply personal visual language, transforms a raw emotional plea into a radiant sculptural presence. The warm glow of the neon casts the words as simultaneously fragile and urgent, blurring the boundary between confession and art object.
- Medium
- neon
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
November 17, 2016
Spotted works by Tracey Emin
Artists in conversation
Bruce Nauman
American · b. 1941
Nauman pioneered neon text art as a medium for urgent, psychologically charged language, creating glowing word based installations that transform intimate or confrontational phrases into sculptural presences with the same luminous intensity as Emin's piece.
Jenny Holzer
American · b. 1950
Holzer uses illuminated text and neon to deliver raw, emotionally loaded statements about vulnerability, desire, and the body, sharing Emin's commitment to confessional language rendered as radiant, physically present art objects.
Nan Goldin
American · b. 1953
Goldin's deeply autobiographical practice explores intimacy, longing, and emotional rawness with the same confessional directness and vulnerability that defines Emin's handwritten neon plea, both artists transforming personal pain into luminous, affecting art.
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