Monday, November 16, 2009

Matthew Collings on Tracey Emin's "My Bed"


"What is it? A manufactured saintly relic: the great power it memorializes or stands for is Saint Pain, Saint Class, Saint Gender, Saint Femininity, Saint Abjection, Saint Ethnicity (English mother, Turkish father), and, of course, Saint Victim. Her devil muses are Drunk, Raped, and Can't Spell."


Matthew Collings ["God Save the Queen," Modern Painters, November 2008]

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