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  What Tracey Emin does can be rather uncomfortable. Nevertheless, within it all there is something where she does have a point. I think the point is over-laboured and I think that she could be a product of advertising rather more than anything else - in which case the Saatchis have probably underlined that they are rather good at their job. Perhaps that's what it's all about,; something to put on their CVs ("We took this hopeless case and created millions for her and from her ...") If so, then it maybe all comes down to a sustained joke.
  
  However, Tracey Emin does reveal and examine concepts that aren't ordinarily visible. In as much as she does that, then one could call what she does "art". Sometimes she strikes the emotions, as with a couple of things she did for the Folkestone Trienniel (even though I felt that her informing concept there wasn't particularly challenging).
  
  She has her place. Having said that, I feel that her place is becoming smaller, and that she already is rather démodé. Maybe that's because ideologically we're beginning to move on from the personalised insular, and maybe too it's because she has now said all she had to say. Whatever the case, I suspect she has contributed to the question of what art is..

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