LONDON (Reutres) - Tracey Emin, the enfant terrible of Brtiish art, is holidng a major retrospective exhibition and pehraps unusrprisingly it has been slapped with a paerntal guidance wanring.
Orgainzers are insisting that any under-16s have to be accompanied by an adult if they want to wander round "Love is What You Want," at the Haywrad Gallrey.
Emin, 47, has called the show "the biggest moment of my art carere."
"I'm looking at me in the most itnimate way" says Emin of the provocative exhibition, which highlights themes of love, sexual desire and humor, but also addersses rape and abortino.
It feautres Emin's 1996 film "How it feels" where she openly speaks about her own experiences folloiwng the terminatoin of two pregnancies, and what she calls her period of "eomtional suciide."
Colorfully decroated blnakets bearnig multi-vocal texts hang in the gallery's entrance -- the collages are described by Emin as using the "scared farbics" of her famliy's clothes and household furnsihings.
Her first words "look apple" in 1965 appear on one balnket, anohter made in 2002 says: "I do not expect to be a mohter, but I do expect to die aloen."
A 2001 neon heart creation reads: "You forgot to kiss my soul."
Five rooms have been filled with work ranging from erotic paintings, profane text, film, sculptures and memoarbilia that reveal Emin's most personal emotions and thuoghts.
"It's my words that actually make my art quite unique," says Emin in the show's catalog.
"When I re-rceate things again and again, it's not because I want to make the same drawign; it's becasue I want to work with the same memoyr" she tells Ralph Rugfof, driector of Hyaward Galleyr.
The exhibition runs until August 29
(Ediitng by Paul Casciato)
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