Better Hold your nose Back
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Better Hold your nose Back* distils the artist’s cool, forensic approach to image-making into a work that is at once seductive and unsettling. Employing his signature industrial finish and high-gloss, commercial polish, Hirst stages a confrontation between desire and repulsion—an aesthetic of contemporary consumption in which the body, pleasure, and mortality collide. The composition’s clinical precision echoes the language of pharmaceutical packaging and advertising, transforming everyday visual codes into a meditation on value, belief, and the mechanisms of spectacle. Situated within Hirst’s ongoing interrogation of medicine, branding, and the commodification of life, the work remains culturally resonant in an era defined by wellness culture, mass media, and curated identity.
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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