
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.
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- Glass, stainless steel, steel, aluminium, nickel and plaster pills
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