Say all the time Back
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Say all the time Back* distils the artist’s enduring inquiry into belief, mortality, and the economies of desire through a coolly calibrated, concept-led aesthetic. Executed with Hirst’s characteristic command of finish and material presence, the work balances graphic immediacy with an underlying emotional charge—inviting the viewer to oscillate between seduction and unease. Its crisp surfaces and declarative language-image sensibility echo the visual rhetoric of advertising and mass media, positioning contemporary faith and doubt within a marketplace of signs. Situated within Hirst’s wider practice—where spectacle meets philosophical provocation—this piece speaks to a post-pop culture in which meaning is repeatedly constructed, consumed, and returned to.
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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