Gly-Gly-Ala
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Gly-Gly-Ala* distils the artist’s enduring investigation of medicine, belief and the aesthetics of care into a rigorously composed, pharmaceutical-inspired work. Referencing amino-acid notation, the title evokes the language of biochemistry—an index of life reduced to code—while the precise, clinical presentation underscores Hirst’s fascination with systems of classification and the museum as a site of secular ritual. Executed with the polished finish and serial clarity associated with his medicine and spot vocabularies, the piece balances seduction and unease: colour, order and immaculate surfaces meet the existential charge of mortality. In today’s post-pandemic cultural landscape, *Gly-Gly-Ala* resonates as a meditation on faith in science, commodification, and contemporary anxieties around 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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