Love poem for CF
(2007)
Medium
neon
Measurements
420.2 × 303.6 × 6.6 cm (installation)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Jo Horgan AM and Peter Wetenhall, 2024
© Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2022
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
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.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Edition
ed. 3/3
Accession Number
2024.126
Department
Contemporary Art