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Damien Hirst — Love, Obey, Invade.
Damien Hirst

Love, Obey, Invade.

2025

Love, Obey, Invade. is perhaps the most conceptually explicit work in the Triple Trouble collection, with its title functioning as a direct roll call of the three collaborating artists — Hirst's love-laden maximalism, Fairey's OBEY ethos, and Invader's spirit of territorial infiltration. Executed in Hirst's signature butterfly and household gloss technique on canvas, the work transforms biological specimens into ornamental abstraction, raising familiar questions about beauty, death, commerce, and the ethics of aesthetic pleasure. The butterflies — creatures of metamorphosis and transience — carry enormous symbolic weight: they are simultaneously natural and artificial, living and dead, sublime and unsettling, mirroring the uneasy glamour that defines Hirst's practice. The inclusion of 'Invade' in the title is particularly resonant here, as the butterfly motif itself enacts a kind of visual invasion — a colonization of the canvas surface by repeating organic forms, echoing Invader's own strategy of proliferating identical tile figures across urban landscapes worldwide. Together, the title and medium synthesize the three artists' philosophies into a single, arresting object that asks whether beauty can also be a form of power, command, and occupation.

Medium
Butterflies and household gloss on canvas
Dimensions

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Damien Hirst, Love, Obey, Invade., 2025

Love, Obey, Invade. is perhaps the most conceptually explicit work in the Triple Trouble collection, with its title functioning as a direct roll call of the three collaborating artists — Hirst's love-laden maximalism, Fairey's OBEY ethos, and Invader's spirit of territorial infiltration. Executed in Hirst's signature butterfly and household gloss technique on canvas, the work transforms biological specimens into ornamental abstraction, raising familiar questions about beauty, death, commerce, and the ethics of aesthetic pleasure. The butterflies — creatures of metamorphosis and transience — carry enormous symbolic weight: they are simultaneously natural and artificial, living and dead, sublime and unsettling, mirroring the uneasy glamour that defines Hirst's practice. The inclusion of 'Invade' in the title is particularly resonant here, as the butterfly motif itself enacts a kind of visual invasion — a colonization of the canvas surface by repeating organic forms, echoing Invader's own strategy of proliferating identical tile figures across urban landscapes worldwide. Together, the title and medium synthesize the three artists' philosophies into a single, arresting object that asks whether beauty can also be a form of power, command, and occupation.

Medium
Butterflies and household gloss on canvas
Dimensions
122 x 366 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Canvas Medium, Natural Elements, Bold Colors, Provocative Mood, Text-Based, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, British Artist, Assemblage Art, Contemporary

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Alex Capecelatro, Sarah Greenspan, Hamilton Selway Gallery, Brittany Laques