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Damien Hirst — Obey/Invade
Damien Hirst

Obey/Invade

2025

'Obey/Invade' is perhaps the most conceptually loaded work in the Triple Trouble collection — a solo Damien Hirst piece whose very title synthesizes the identities of his two collaborators, Shepard Fairey's OBEY movement and Invader's mosaic invasions, into a single declarative command. Constructed from glass, stainless steel, steel, aluminium, nickel, and plaster pills, the work transforms pharmaceutical objects into architectural components, blurring the line between Hirst's medicine cabinet sculptures and the pixel-grid logic of Invader's tile work. The choice of industrial and reflective materials — steel, nickel, aluminium — gives the pills a cold, systemic authority, as though compliance and invasion are not acts of individual will but of structural inevitability. The dual title operates as both homage and critique, suggesting that to obey and to invade are perhaps the same gesture performed at different scales. This piece anchors the entire collaboration, demonstrating that the three artists' practices do not merely coexist but actively interrogate one another.

Medium
Glass, stainless steel, steel, aluminium, nickel and plaster pills

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Damien Hirst, Obey/Invade, 2025

'Obey/Invade' is perhaps the most conceptually loaded work in the Triple Trouble collection — a solo Damien Hirst piece whose very title synthesizes the identities of his two collaborators, Shepard Fairey's OBEY movement and Invader's mosaic invasions, into a single declarative command. Constructed from glass, stainless steel, steel, aluminium, nickel, and plaster pills, the work transforms pharmaceutical objects into architectural components, blurring the line between Hirst's medicine cabinet sculptures and the pixel-grid logic of Invader's tile work. The choice of industrial and reflective materials — steel, nickel, aluminium — gives the pills a cold, systemic authority, as though compliance and invasion are not acts of individual will but of structural inevitability. The dual title operates as both homage and critique, suggesting that to obey and to invade are perhaps the same gesture performed at different scales. This piece anchors the entire collaboration, demonstrating that the three artists' practices do not merely coexist but actively interrogate one another.

Medium
Glass, stainless steel, steel, aluminium, nickel and plaster pills
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Geometric Forms, Monumental Scale, British Artist, Pharmaceutical Subject, Critical Mood, Contemporary Sculpture, Industrial Aesthetic, 2020s Era, Mixed Materials, Metallic Palette

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