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Tracey Emin — This is life without you - You made me Feel like This
Tracey Emin

This is life without you - You made me Feel like This

2018

Tracey Emin's acrylic work employs gestural, expressive brushwork to convey raw emotional vulnerability through its title's fragmented declaration of loss and abandonment. The painting exemplifies her characteristic approach of merging autobiographical content with abstract formal elements, where the materiality of paint becomes inseparable from the emotional weight of the text. This piece reflects Emin's broader practice of using words and spontaneous mark making to articulate intimate psychological states and relational trauma.

Medium
acrylic on canvas

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Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale

October 10, 2024

Lot 5

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Tracey Emin, This is life without you - You made me Feel like This, 2018

Tracey Emin's acrylic work employs gestural, expressive brushwork to convey raw emotional vulnerability through its title's fragmented declaration of loss and abandonment. The painting exemplifies her characteristic approach of merging autobiographical content with abstract formal elements, where the materiality of paint becomes inseparable from the emotional weight of the text. This piece reflects Emin's broader practice of using words and spontaneous mark making to articulate intimate psychological states and relational trauma.

Medium
acrylic on canvas
Year
2018
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Confessional aesthetic, British Artist, Melancholic introspection, Late 20th Century, Wall-mounted neon text, Contemporary Art, Young British Artists (YBA), Emotional Vulnerability, Neon Light Installation, Autobiographical narrative

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Hamilton Selway Gallery