Emin revels in descent to hell with her heroes

Dame Tracey Emin catches me looking from her self-portrait to her as I try to assess the closeness of the resemblance.

- Jonathan Jones

Not that close. This inky screenprint is bigger than she is, its face wider and taller. But it’s not a picture of the outer person but an inner vision. As we stand in front of it I seem to fall into radiating pools of blackness - to cross into darkness.

Emin has curated an exhibition for the depths of winter. It’s a generous, unexpected show with an eclectic yet profound openness to kinds of creativity many might think incompatible: paintings, installations, performance art all face the night here. She sets artists she nurtures at the Emin Studios alongside her heroes Edvard Munch, Louise Bourgeois and other luminaries - if luminary is the right word in this stygian setting. For, by a stroke of genius, the gallery is plunged into nocturnal shadow that still lets you see the art.