Any chance I can get back
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Any chance I can get back* encapsulates the artist’s enduring preoccupation with desire, mortality, and the transactional nature of contemporary life. Executed with Hirst’s characteristic blend of conceptual clarity and seductive surface, the work stages a tension between emotional vulnerability and clinical detachment—hallmarks of his practice since the Young British Artists era. Through precise fabrication and a deliberately controlled finish, Hirst mobilises the language of the readymade and the rhetoric of luxury, inviting viewers to consider how value is constructed: aesthetically, economically, and ethically. At once intimate and confrontational, the piece resonates within today’s image-saturated culture, where longing is commodified and meaning is negotiated through brands, spectacle, and the politics of attention.
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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