TRACEY EMIN, EVERYONE I HAVE EVER SLEPT WITH 1963–1995, 1995

Appliquéd tent, mattress and light, 122 × 245 × 215 cm, 48 × 96 1⁄2 × 84 5⁄8 in.

“Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 or The Tent was an actual tent embroidered with one hundred and two names of the people Tracey Emin had ever slept with until the time of its production in 1995. It is often literally interpreted as a work indicating the number of her sexual partners, but it actually goes beyond that - it also includes the names of the people with whom she just slept. And so, The Tent includes family, friends, drinking partners, lovers and even two numbered fetuses. The most dominating name is perhaps Billy Childish, with whom Emin was emotionally involved for some time.

The tent was a blue square reminiscent of the passageway shell grotto in Margate that fascinated Emin during her childhood. The floor of the tent was covered with the text "With myself, always myself, never forgetting."“ - Widewalls