Pardon
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Pardon* distils the artist’s cool conceptual rigour into an image of immediate, disquieting clarity. Working with the high-gloss finish and clinical precision associated with his practice, Hirst stages a meditation on morality, vulnerability, and the transactional language of forgiveness. The work’s controlled surface and deliberate presentation evoke the aesthetics of the laboratory and the marketplace alike, aligning intimacy with display and emotion with commodity. As with Hirst’s most influential projects, *Pardon* reframes contemporary belief systems—medical, spiritual, and consumerist—into a single, charged encounter. Both seductive and confrontational, it speaks to a culture negotiating guilt, redemption, and value under the sharp lights of spectacle.
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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