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Damien Hirst
Six Pills (Small)
Originally produced to accompany Damien Hirst’s 2004 New York exhibition ‘The Elusive Truth, which focused on a selection of Hirst’s over-sized hand-painted tablets, the medicine cabinet in this print appears almost as a shrine or totem praising modern pharmaceuticals.
However, while medicine helps to prolong life and prevent illness, it is ineffectual in holding off death completely. While Hirst’s pills remain shiny and inviting - immortalised as they are in the pristine pharmaceutical cabinet - the artist puts into question society’s reliance on chemicals to feel, and stay, alive.
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 | For the Love of God, The Diamond Skull 2007 |
 | Lepidine 2008 |
 | Providence 2009 |
 | Psalm Print: Verba mea auribus 2009 |
 | Skull with ashtray and lemon 2009 |
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