Psilocybin
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Psilocybin* channels the artist’s enduring preoccupation with perception, belief, and the chemistry of experience. Executed with Hirst’s characteristically crisp, high-impact finish, the work deploys vivid colour and clinical clarity to evoke altered states—where pleasure, anxiety, and revelation coexist. Referencing the cultural discourse around psychedelics—once taboo, now re-examined through contemporary science and wellness—*Psilocybin* sits at the intersection of pharmacology and pop iconography, extending Hirst’s investigation into medicine as modern myth. The composition’s seductive surface draws viewers in while insisting on a cooler, conceptual distance, underscoring the tension between spectacle and mortality that defines Hirst’s landmark contribution to contemporary British art.
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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