
Forbidden Space
2025
Forbidden Space represents one of the most materially audacious works in the Triple Trouble collection, fusing Invader's mosaic tile language with Hirst's unflinching use of unconventional and unsettling objects. The incorporation of scalpel blades alongside ceramic tiles and paint on wood creates a work that is simultaneously playful and dangerous, bridging Invader's 8-bit nostalgia with Hirst's long-standing fascination with instruments of surgery, mortality, and bodily vulnerability. The title conjures themes of trespass and exclusion — resonant for Invader, whose street installations exist in constant negotiation with public and private space, and for Hirst, whose work often probes the forbidden territories of death and the body. The ceramic tiles render the composition in the pixelated grammar of early video games, but the scalpel blades rupture that innocent visual register with a sharp, clinical threat. This collaboration pushes both artists into new conceptual territory, producing a work that is visually arresting and philosophically charged.
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- Ceramic tiles, paint and scalpel blades on wood
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