Emin’s anti-Brexit art for Remoaner rail boss
WITH its glorious Gothic architecture, St Pancras station has dazzled London’s visitors for years.
But now passengers arriving from Europe will be greeted with a modern addition – with a pointedly political message.
The art installation from Tracey Emin, hanging in front of the station’s clock, reads: ‘I want my time with you.’
The artist said the 20-metre-long pink neon sign was a ‘subliminal message to the rest of Europe’ in the wake of the Brexit vote.
Miss Emin yesterday said the work expresses her ‘deep sadness’ that Britain will be ‘demoted to a tiny island floating around in the North Sea’.
The piece was commissioned by High Speed 1, which owns the station and runs the rail line between London and the Kent coast. Rob Holden, the company’s chairman, has previously claimed that Brexit will cause chaos ‘for all businesses’. All visitors arriving from continental Europe by train will see the message, as Eurostar services terminate at St Pancras International. It will be on display at the station until the end of the year.
Miss Emin, 54, whose most famous work My Bed consisted of a recreation of her own messy bedroom, said she wasn’t ‘against’ those who voted to leave the European Union, but claimed they ‘didn’t understand what they were voting for’. She added: ‘We live in a democracy, people are allowed to vote for whatever they want, but really it shouldn’t have been down to the people. ‘There shouldn’t have been a referendum. I don’t understand what David Cameron was doing.’