Artist Tracey Emin’s iconic and controversial installation My Bed will be on display at Turner Contemporary this Autumn.
It will be exhibited alongside a collection of JMW Turner’s seascapes and stormy skies, loaned from Tate’s collection and chosen by the artist.
My Bed famously features Emin’s own bed and gives a snapshot of her life after a traumatic relationship breakdown. It offers ‘an unconventional and uncompromising self-portrait through objects’, in which the artist herself is absent.
Originally made in Emin’s Waterloo council flat in 1998 and included in her Turner Prize exhibition in 1999, the bed is on long term loan to Tate following its purchase by a private collector in 2014.
I can’t believe this pile of rubbish is considered to be art. I would call it slobbish and pathetic
To put this rubbish next to Turner`s paintings beggars belief !
Absolute rubbish. I cant believe she is making so much money out of an unmade bed which we all have every morning.She should get a proper job. Id be embarrassed if i was her.
The original burned in a weirdly opportunist fire. Must be some other bed…
Ridiculous…