Love poem for CF
(2007)

• Tracey EMIN

Using her own experience – and frequently her own body – as source material for the work, Tracey Emin explores ideas of self-portraiture and narrative disclosure, where both are intimately tied to her own biography. The intimacy of the messages, in her own handwriting, juxtaposes the industrial materiality of the neon.

Love poem for CF is a confessional work based on a text the artist has revisited throughout her career. Written in the late 1990s, the original work was the centrepiece of her breakthrough exhibition at the South London Gallery in 1997.