Psalm- Judica Domine
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Psalm – Judica Domine* extends the artist’s sustained inquiry into belief systems, mortality, and the aesthetics of devotion. Drawing on liturgical language—“Judge me, O Lord”—the work fuses the authority of sacred text with Hirst’s characteristically cool, contemporary facture, where conceptual clarity meets seductive surface. Whether read as a modern reliquary or a provocation, the piece stages a tension between faith and spectacle, inviting viewers to consider how meaning is constructed and commodified in late capitalism. Hirst’s precise handling of materials and graphic presentation lends the work a devotional immediacy, while its cultural references situate it within ongoing debates around spirituality, iconography, and the role of art as a secular altar in contemporary culture.
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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