Tracey Emin
3/27/20261 hr 9 min
Season 27 @TalkArt continues with TRACEY EMIN. Hosted by @RobertDiament.
An exclusive new interview recorded in Margate within Crossing Into Darkness, a group exhibition curated by Dame Tracey Emin including works by 21 international artists.
Crossing Into Darkness brings together a group of artists whose works confront the darkness inherent in human experience, not as something to be feared but as a necessary threshold toward renewal. In times marked by upheaval and uncertainty, this journey feels both universal and deeply personal.
The title of the show is very self explanatory, especially for the times we are living in. But even so we have always had our own journeys. And I feel that we have to cross into darkness to find light. I’d like this show to be very emotionally immersive and people to feel the strength and vibrations within the works. I want people to know that art isn’t just something that you look at. That it has a deeper purpose and can penetrate all souls. I love the idea of people coming to Margate on the greyest of winter days with gale force winds and crashing waves to make the pilgrimage to see the show.
– Dame Tracey Emin
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Special thanks to @CarlFreedmanGallery
This powerful group show runs until Sunday 12th April at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate. Free entry, no booking required.
Tracey Emin’s major solo exhibition A Second Life runs until Sunday 31st August 2026 at Tate Modern, London. Tickets available from Tate.
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First 90 secondsRobert Diament· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Good afternoon, good evening, good morning, wherever you are in the world. I am Robert Diamant, and you're listening to Talk Art. Welcome to Talk Art. Today, I am feeling like I'm longing for renewal, and it's partly because we are in this transition from winter, the depths of winter, into spring. And every time it gets to March, I'm always feeling, like, some sort of longing that I just want all the flowers to open up and, you know, metaphorically speaking, to have some sort of sense of renewal. And we are currently here in Margate, and today has been a very windy day, um, and very, very icy cold, actually, which is, feels odd for March. But we are here in Carl Freedman Gallery, and I am with someone who in many ways has helped me to renew myself and my life over the past two decades through our friendship. Uh, she's a mentor to me and to many others in the community of Margate, and obviously a world-class artist who has currently got a solo show at Tate Modern in London as well. But rather than being in Tate, we felt like we wanted to be here in Margate, which is both of our homes, but also a gallery called Carl Freedman Gallery, where I work, and it's a show curated by today's guest. It's called Crossing into Darkness, and I'm really looking forward to exploring this show with the one and only Tracey Emin.
Tracey Emin· Guest1:27
I'm laughing. [chuckles] I'm really laughing.