Mescaline
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Mescaline* evokes the artist’s ongoing examination of desire, perception, and the systems that frame contemporary belief. The work’s pristine, clinical aesthetic—precise surfaces, heightened colour, and an almost pharmaceutical clarity—recalls the language of the laboratory while inviting a more unstable, sensorial reading suggested by its title. Hirst orchestrates a tension between control and intoxication, presenting beauty as both seductive and unsettling. With its sharp visual immediacy and conceptual charge, *Mescaline* situates the viewer at the threshold between spectacle and scrutiny, extending Hirst’s critique of modern consumption and the rituals of looking.
About the Artist
Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. In 1984 he moved to London, where he worked in construction before studying for a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths college from 1986 to 1989. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. Since the late 1980’s, Hirst has used a varied practise of...
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