
Nitrofurantoin 100mg
2019
Nitrofurantoin 100mg is a striking sculptural work in which Damien Hirst enlarges a pharmaceutical capsule to monumental scale, rendered in ABS plastic with cellulose paint and a 2K lacquer finish that gives the surface a gleaming, hyper-real quality. The choice of industrial materials — the same used in product manufacturing — reinforces Hirst's long-standing interrogation of the pharmaceutical industry's hold over modern life, beauty, and mortality. The work belongs to Hirst's broader Pill series, in which everyday medication is elevated to the status of sacred object, critiquing society's near-religious faith in chemical remedies and the commodification of health. The clinical precision of the lacquered finish mirrors the sterile authority of the medical world, while the sheer scale transforms something intimate and quotidian into something confrontational and unavoidable. Nitrofurantoin — an antibiotic — carries specific cultural resonance, evoking vulnerability, dependency, and the uneasy relationship between the body, illness, and corporate medicine.
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