In this piece, Everyone I ever slept with, Emin not just includes all of her boyfriends and sexual partners, but also her childhood relative that she SLEPT with and her 2 aborted children. It becomes kind of scary, but at the same time the way she is playing with how we use the word "Slept" is beyond intriguing. I wonder if she included the man who raped her...
http://www.tracey-emin.co.uk/tracey-emin-home.html
This site has a lot of really great information, including a biography, descriptions of many of her pieces, some of her written work, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_British_Artists
It's interesting that Emin was in a group called the YBAs (Young British Artists) that was all about conceptual art and yet her boyfriend, Billy Childish, was all about avoiding conceptual art.
Also great to know she worked with Damien Hirst.
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