Ever keep on keeping up Back
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Ever keep on keeping up Back* channels the artist’s persistent inquiry into mortality, value, and the mechanisms of contemporary desire. Suggested by its title’s looping momentum, the work reads as a meditation on repetition and return—an image that feels both forward-driving and caught in feedback. Hirst’s precise, industrial finish and calibrated color relationships create a heightened visual clarity that borders on the clinical, yet the surface retains an undeniable sensual pull. Balancing seductive immediacy with conceptual rigor, the piece situates the viewer between fascination and unease, extending Hirst’s cultural critique of spectacle into a quietly destabilizing encounter.
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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