STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

Entrepreneur and bon vivant David Tang has been a collector and good friend of Tracey Emin for many years, so who better to interview the former wild child of contemporary British art ahead of her debut Hong Kong exhibition this month. The irrepressible pair meet at a London cultural hub, the China Exchange, to swap views on love, romance and David’s bed

Photography JERMAINE FRANCIS Shot on location at the China Exchange, London

WE KNOW THAT UP TILL 1995, when she was 32, Tracey Emin had slept with 102 people. Tracey confessed this in her work Everyone That I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995, with all the names appliquéd onto a tent. But the work went up in smoke, because the warehouse in which it was stored went up in smoke. She had been asked to replicate it, and perhaps bring it up to date. But Tracey never obliged. I hope she changes her mind, because if she did one now, I could claim to be a name, as I have slept with Tracey. The circumstances of our intimacy were both suspicious and compelling. Both of us had been staying on a friend’s boat on the Adriatic. After dinner on the first evening, I…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2016

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