«Sex is something we can do, it is free!»

I raised my eyes and I see a room full of tapestries, blankets that accomplish a great deal more than the pornography of images that at first sight looks to encompass Tracy Emin's work. In her body of work, at one level, the centrality of vision of contemporary social media and also the visual world production of meaning is surrogated by textuality; at another level I recognise that pieces like the neon’s and the video's work as simultaneous anchors to an entire range of analyses and interpretations of the psychic dynamics of spectatorship, or, as Tracey Emin says, “Now I am dancing! When I start to dance, people start to clap.” In today’s world meaning circulate visually, in addition to orally and textually. Most of the pictures, shown at the exhibition, convey signs to «illuminate emotions, memories, feelings and ideas in graphic messages, sentences and poems», like her dad, ex-lovers, pregnancy or just about sex. Together with her own lived traumas these are some of the questions explored by Tracy Emin’s art. Recurring themes that take the form of a critique of the binary logic in relation to a system of negative differentiation. Love is What You Want, showing at the Hayward Gallery (until August 29th), establishes and maintains an individual aesthetic value.