Honesty

She is so brutally honest. Her work is so visually abrupt and the words only add to it. We very frequently talk about how in drawings with words, the words take away from it. In Emin's work the words seem to make the piece, with the visuals of women's spread legs being minor and secondary to the message displayed with verbiage.

http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/artists/tracey-emin/

I especially like the piece Just Like Nothing, 2009.