Name: DAMIEN HIRST (B. 1965)
Brand: Silver charm bracelet
Price: 6500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

DAMIEN HIRST (B. 1965)
Silver charm bracelet
charm bracelet in 925 Sterling silver, 2004, comprising 17 pharmaceutical pill charms of various sizes, engraved with the signature 'DHirst' and the artist's copyright stamp, numbered 45/50
Length 205 mm.

Gifted by the artist to the present owner in 2007.

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This silver bracelet incorporates seventeen silver charms replicating pills. Together with formaldehyde, butterflies and spots, pharmaceuticals are a prominent feature in the artist's vocabulary, originally explored in his Pill Cabinets series, and enrich Hirst's investigation on the relationship between humanity, life & death, art and science. He views medicine as a powerful contemporary faith, for which society believes drugs, despite their side-effects, will cure and preserve us.
A de facto object of vanitas, the bracelet is a wearable reminder that medicines can slacken but not stop our inevitable, human, mortal fate.