Tracey Emin
True Love Always Wins
2016
Four colour lithographic print on Somerset 300gsm Velvet White paper
60 × 76 cm
Ed. / 300 — Hand Signed and numbered on the front
Location: London, United Kingdom
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About the artwork
Produced in 2016,True Love Always Wins centres Emin’s handwritten phrase as the main visual subject. The irregular script retains the pace and pressure of a personal note rather than formal typography. Open space around the words intensifies their directness,allowing the statement to operate simultaneously as image,declaration and intimate address.
The stated technique is lithograph in colors on paper. Its material and format remain integral to the presentation. The lithographic process records changes in pressure,broken contours and overlapping gestures without regularizing the original drawing. Large areas of untouched paper remain visible around the marks,allowing the figure or handwritten phrase to retain an exposed and provisional character.
Expert opinion
The declarative phrase belongs to Emin’s recurring use of handwritten language as an extension of drawing. Its apparent optimism is complicated by the artist’s wider treatment of love as a source of longing,exposure and pain. The work therefore reads as both affirmation and something the speaker needs to believe.
Across Tracey Emin’s broader output,True Love Always Wins is notable because it retains the hesitation and exposure of private experience within a public edition.
About the artist
Tracey Emin is a British artist born in London in 1963, and associated with the Young British Artists movement that profoundly influenced the art scene in the UK in the nineties. Her largely autobiographical work explores themes of love, sexuality, vulnerability, loss and identity in a wide variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, neon, video, embroidery and installation. She achieved international recognition with emblematic works such as My Bed, presented in 1999 and now a symbol of radical confessional art. Handwritten language, often direct and emotionally charged, is a central element of her practice, particularly in her neon works, which translate intimate statements into luminous messages displayed in public spaces. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy in 2007, Tracey Emin has had major exhibitions in international institutions and her work is included in numerous public and private collections, confirming her essential role in the evolution of contemporary art centered on personal experience and subjectivity.
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