Tracey Emin
Be Faithful To Your Dreams
London, England: Momart, 1999
37.5cm x 37.5 cm.
Edition size unknown
Momart is a British company specialising in the storage, transportation, and installation of artworks, whose clients include the Royal Academy of Arts, Victoria & Albert Museum, the Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Buckingham Palace. They are perhaps best known for a fire that broke out in their warehouse in 2004, which damaged or destroyed several works by well known YBA artists, including
Tracey Emin's 1995 piece Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995. Emin has refused to remake the work, which remains one of her most celebrated projects.
Four years later, though, she produced this embroidered cotton handkerchief for the company.
Similar to the Peter Norton Family Christmas Projects, each year Momart mails out an artists' edition in place of a traditional greeting card. Dating back to 1984, the series includes Helen Chadwick, Peter Blake, Gary Hume, Mark Wallinger, Sarah Lucas, Richard Wentworth, Gillian Ayres, Anthony Caro, Richard Deacon, Damien Hirst, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Catherine Yass, Gavin Turk, Clare Woods, Idris Khan, Phlegm and many others.
The edition sizes are not noted, but are thought to be around 500 for each project. Be Faithful To Your Dreams is offered on Ebay for thousands of pounds.
Tracey Emin is currently recovering after falling ill in Thailand following complications from a surgery. She posted on social media saying “I’ve used another one of my nine lives” after becoming “very unwell”.
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