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Tracey Emin — I Promise to Love You
Tracey Emin

I Promise to Love You

Tracey Emin's *I Promise to Love You* presents the artist's signature handwritten script rendered in glowing neon light, transforming an intimate declaration into a luminous public statement. The warm, pulsing light of the neon tube gives the phrase a simultaneously romantic and urgent quality, blurring the line between personal confession and universal longing. Characteristic of Emin's confessional practice, the work mines the raw language of emotion, making vulnerability radiant and impossible to ignore.

Medium
neon

🔨 Auction Lot

Contemporary Art Day Sale

October 15, 2015

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Tracey Emin, I Promise to Love You

Tracey Emin's *I Promise to Love You* presents the artist's signature handwritten script rendered in glowing neon light, transforming an intimate declaration into a luminous public statement. The warm, pulsing light of the neon tube gives the phrase a simultaneously romantic and urgent quality, blurring the line between personal confession and universal longing. Characteristic of Emin's confessional practice, the work mines the raw language of emotion, making vulnerability radiant and impossible to ignore.

Medium
neon
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Confessional Art, Handwritten Script, Tracey Emin, Emotionally Charged, Text Art, Conceptual Art, Autobiographical Work, British Artist, Contemporary Artist, Romantic Theme, Intimate Mood, Neon Medium, Pink And Red Hues, Installation Art, Turner Prize Nominee, Neon Light, Female Artist, Warm Tones, Text-Based Art, Pink Tones

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Hamilton Selway Gallery