Tracey Emin: A Second Life
Tate Modern, London
27 February – 31 August 2026
The bar has been set high. What can I possibly add to the flurry of voices discussing Tracey Emin’s new retrospective exhibition, A Second Life, at Tate Modern, to which there were more than 400 visitors just to the press view? Well, one of the key things talked about by the Tate director, Maria Balshaw, at the press view was the movement from I to You, and how Emin apparently wants her viewers to look at her works and reflect on their own messy lives. So perhaps that is where I ought to begin? I have managed previously to review a couple of her exhibitions for Studio International without gushing too much, but today, at the behest of the artist, I am going to allow myself to ooze.
Read my full review here