GOOD NEWS! Had an interview with Somerset House today and have got a job = Super happpppy! I will finally be in a gallery :)
Also, after my interview I thought Id take a walk over the river to the Hayward Gallery to look at the Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want exhibition. It was £9 but totally worth it; the rooms kept on appearing with reams and reams of work. I was particularly interested in her film pieces, full with humor but never without the undertone of anger and sinisterness that her work never fails to adhere.
I felt that a significant theme that kept creeping up throughout the exhibition was her experience of abortion. One film presented Emin being casually interviewed in areas around London; areas that were significant to her, where specific events took place. Family-friendly/orientated, idyllic areas such as parks, estates and streets were commonplace - when placed with the dialogue, the subject of abortion, it became a huge juxtapose along with the Emin 'trademark' that never fails to slap you in the face, as if to bring you back to life and engage with things you may or may not have faced before.
I came away trying to answer or just to carry on questioning her questions around being a mother, why do we have children? Do we need them, or is it something you feel you need to do as a fashion? Can we articulate our emotions to care and to nurture into something other than a human? The answers may not be answered but I felt fully engaged with the themes that arose from the exhibition.