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From: el art reviews Category: Art Date: 05 June 2009 Time: 05:42 AM Review: http://www.whitecube.com/artists/emin/ Lodda people hate trace, possibly because she is mouthy and a woman. Lodda people hate anyone famous too. She IS quite good. I like her bed and her blankets best,and the small scratchy drawings are sometimes klimtly successful at summoning body pain. This show has a lot more naked traces, and an animation in a big gallery of her spread leg alter ego masturbating. Big blankets downstairs have similar motifs, and their are some framed up sketch book pages with more anguished scrawls. The changes of medium and scale dont seemt to add much value (artistic not financial). You wonder how she has so much time to be unhappy when busy representing Britain in the venice biennale and staying in 5 star hotels. Still that's her schtick and like many succesful artists and musicians she sticks with it, perhaps purifying her adolescent wail along the way into something which resembles good (great?) art.