After years of publicly supporting Conservative governments, Tracey Emin now presents herself as non-partisan — yet the personal agonies depicted in her work remain inseparable from the political contexts that shaped them.

Tracey Emin, My Bed , 1998. (Credit: Prudence C via The Saatchi Gallery.)

In 2022, Dame Tracey Emin — the art world’s former darling enfant terrible —…