Ad Te Domine Levavi diamond d
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Ad Te Domine Levavi (diamond d)* fuses devotional language with the artist’s trademark calibration of desire, faith, and spectacle. Evoking the Latin liturgical phrase “To You, Lord, I lift up,” the work transforms spiritual aspiration into a contemporary icon, where the allure of diamond-like brilliance becomes both material fact and metaphor. Hirst’s precise orchestration of reflective surfaces and chromatic intensity produces a hypnotic optical field, drawing viewers into a slow, bodily encounter with light and depth. Balancing seduction with unease, the piece situates transcendence within the economies of luxury and belief, amplifying its cultural resonance.
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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