‘I’m not going to drive a red bus into the Royal Academy and hang everything inside it – I’m not out to be provocative on that kind of level’
Tracey Emin has unveiled last week a room full of scandalous and sexually connoted artworks at the Royal Academy, in London. Emin was admitted into the Royal Academy last year and this is the first time she has curated a room at the show. Among the works Tracey had chosen for the summer show a sculpture featuring dozens of pink penises by artduo Tim Noble and Sue Webster, a porcelain sculpture of human figures and genitalia by Rachel Kneebone or a picture of a zebra performing what looks like sex with a woman by Matt Collishaw, former Emin's boyfriend. Emin explains that she had chosen those works that made her feel "excited and feverish". Other piece include Sigalit Landau's video of a naked woman doing the hula hoop with barbed wire shown at the MoMA of NY in April and that I found absolutely fascinating.
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