Lepidine
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Lepidine* distils the artist’s enduring investigation of belief, medicine, and mortality into a crisp, concept-driven composition. Drawing on the visual language of pharmaceutical branding and the cool authority of clinical display, the work deploys precise surface control and graphic clarity to transform an everyday marker of health culture into an object of contemplation. Hirst’s approach—simultaneously seductive and forensic—foregrounds the aesthetics of regulation, dosage, and promise, asking how systems of care shape contemporary desire and fear. Positioned within his broader practice of reframing scientific artefacts as icons, *Lepidine* resonates with the late-capitalist marketplace of cures, faith in technology, and the persistent vulnerability of the body.
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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