A Feeling Of Shock
A Feeling Of Shock
Signed Print
Tracey Emin
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Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 50
Year: 2022
Size: H 94cm x W 74cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Meaning & Analysis
A Feeling of Shock (2022) by Tracey Emin, depicts a figure almost dissolving into the page - its outline blurred, one side heavily shaded, the other scarcely there. It forms part of the A Journey to Death series, created during a period of reflection on illness, ageing, and the limits of the body.
A Feeling of Shock carries an uneven intensity. The face is blocked in with thick marks that obscure its features, while the body is loosely drawn, slipping in and out of definition. It’s not so much a portrait as a trace; part presence, part disappearance. Emin’s use of line feels improvised, almost reluctant, as if the image has emerged in stages and is still in flux. It’s this tension, between clarity and collapse, that gives the work its charge.
Tracey Emin, born in 1963, stands as a fearless provocateur in the contemporary art scene. A trailblazer of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement in the late 1980s, the artist has sparked conversation and controversy for decades. Confronting themes of love, trauma and femininity with great vulnerability, Emin's work is a visceral tapestry of her life and has forged an intimate dialogue between artist and audience. In 1999, this raw approach to storytelling won her a nomination to the Turner Prize and, in 2007, it got her a coveted spot as a Royal Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA).
