EventsTracey Emin — I will miss you Yesterday (...)
Exhibition
Tracey Emin
I will miss you Yesterday (...)
Ends in about 2 months: October 20 → December 18, 2026
Tracey Emin
Née à Londres en 1963, Tracey Emin se fait connaître dans les années 1990 avec un œuvre très personnel et une frontalité radicale où intimité et recherches plastiques s’emmêlent dans des présentations audacieuses et touchantes.
Responding to the domestic character of White Cube Paris, the paintings and small-scale sculptures in Tracey Emin’s exhibition with the gallery unfold as a sequence of intimate vignettes that collectively chart the emotional terrain of love through passages of togetherness and estrangement. Invariably autobiographical and rendered in Emin’s recognisably loose, animated mark making, the works return to the private sphere of the bedroom, where the nude subject is encountered amid states of physical vulnerability and psychic unrest. At times enfolded in the arms of a lover, the female figure is more often depicted alone, adrift in fields of nocturnal blue and black.
An abiding subject in Emin’s work, the reclining nude is reprised across several paintings, assuming mutable forms and emotional registers: by turns enigmatic, desolate, seductive and exposed; overwhelmed by the gaze of another or protected by it. In the exhibition’s titular painting, the recumbent figure is all but subsumed by a sea of blue, beneath the incantatory refrain that gives both work and exhibition their title: I will miss you Yesterday – I will miss you Today – I will miss you Tomorrow – And that’s how it will Always be (2025). Dense, agitated strokes efface the subject’s face and pelvic area, occluding the parts of the body through which identity and sexuality would otherwise be rendered legible. Where this forlorn, desexed figure appears to yield to a submersion, the subject of Beauty (2022) is assertively present: head raised, legs parted, her body vividly delineated and buoyed by a low valley of rose pink.
