Psalm- Miserere mei Deus
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Psalm – Miserere mei Deus* draws on the cadences of Catholic liturgy to examine contemporary faith, doubt, and the commodification of belief. Part of the artist’s ongoing engagement with sacred iconography and mass-produced visual systems, the work is characterised by a cool, clinical precision—an approach that echoes Hirst’s medicine cabinets and spot paintings while shifting the register toward devotional text and ritual. The Latin plea “have mercy on me, O God” becomes both confession and conceptual device, inviting viewers to consider how meaning is constructed through repetition, authority, and display. At once austere and provocative, the piece situates Hirst within a lineage from memento mori to postmodern appropriation, resonating powerfully in a secular age.
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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