Damien Hirst
Biotex, 2014
Biotex houshold stain remover with box, wooden plinth, white pen
8 7/10 × 8 1/2 × 4 7/10 in. | 22 × 21.5 × 12 cm
Unique
signed (on plinth)
POA
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A unique work - a box of ordinary 'Biotex' household stain removing powder, mounted on a bespoke wooden plinth. This work is a testament to the artist's aim to create...
A unique work - a box of ordinary 'Biotex' household stain removing powder, mounted on a bespoke wooden plinth.
This work is a testament to the artist's aim to create a sanitized environment through which the concept of immortality can be explored.
The brightly coloured cleaning products, with their Pop-art style lettering and childishly pleasing forms, are employed by the artist as a symbol of contemporary society’s utopian aspirations, Hirst explains: “they give us hope, some might say false hope, they seem to say that we can achieve immorality through cleanliness, that we can somehow make the bad things in the world go away, which of course we can’t.”
Signed by Hirst in white pen on the wooden plinth.