In 2007, the artist became the second female artist to represent Great Britain with a solo show at the Venice Biennale, following from the footsteps of her fellow YBA peer Rachel Whiteread a decade earlier - both artists having been ‘discovered’ alongside in the breakthrough Sensation exhibition curated by Charles Saatchi in 1997. Importantly, Our Angels coincides with a watershed in Emin’s career, created as part of perhaps her most important solo presentation ever.
Tracey Emin's Our Angels installed at the entrance of the Venice Biennale's British Pavilion, on the occasion of the artist's solo presentation, Borrowed Light, 2007. Currently, and until, recent paintings by Emin can be found alongside masterpieces she selected by Edvard Munch, in a show entitled The Loneliness of the Soulat the Royal Academy, London. In 2010, Our Angels resurfaced on the façade of the Foundling Museum as part of a group show with Paula Rego and Mat Collishaw, evidencing the work’s lasting visual and conceptual power within Emin's wider oeuvre. Adorning the exterior wall of the Venice Biennale’s 2007 British Pavilion - for which Emin was selected as the sole exhibitor that year - Our Angels was seen free-floating on either side of the entrance, as if greeting visitors through the portals of heaven. 1 One of three, Our Angels is composed of two neons, one depicting a small bird resting on a blossoming branch, the other reading the sentence ‘Foundlings and Fledglings our Angels of this Earth’. Pairing neon glass lights with Tracey Emin’s immediately recognisable handwriting, Our Angels exemplifies the vulnerability for which the British artist has become known, at a moment when she only began to step onto the international scene ‘at a distance from the Young British Artists generation with which she came to prominence’. like a bird, I thought I was free.' -Tracey Emin It feels as if it has been stripped of all superfluous material and we're left with only those moments of her life that Tracey feels are defining and important.'I’ve always had the idea that birds are the angels of this earth and that they represent freedom. Louise Sherwin-Stark, Sales It took me totally by surprise - her ability as a writer, the mixture of styles, the brutal honesty of it all. I am not sure what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting her warmth, wit and humour.
Hugo Hutchison, Marketing Reading STRANGELAND is like drinking a bottle of vodka with Tracey and listening to her talk, with real honesty, about everything. No pretension, no primadonna hysterics - just a beautifully crafted and brutally honest exploration of her world. This book is a reminder of why so many people respond with their hearts to her work.' Metro It took me by surprise with its incredibly upfront yet poignant portrait of Tracey's life. 'A fantastically engaging storyteller.Emin is heartbreaking.
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