
Three Treasures in Chest
2025
Three Treasures in Chest is a characteristically theatrical and symbolically loaded work from Damien Hirst, combining cast bronze with gold-leafed resin and plaster to create an object that sits between relic, trophy, and memento mori. The use of gold leaf — historically associated with sacred icons, royal patronage, and the divine — applied over resin and plaster creates a deliberate tension between preciousness and artifice, a hallmark of Hirst's career-long interrogation of value, desire, and the art market itself. The chest as a form carries centuries of symbolic weight: treasure chests evoke myth, mortality, hidden wealth, and the seductive danger of the unknown, themes that run throughout Hirst's practice from his vitrines to his spot paintings and pharmacy works. Bronze grounds the piece in the language of permanence and monument, while the gold-leafed interiors suggest that what is most coveted is also most constructed — beauty and value as performance. As Hirst's contribution to the Triple Trouble collaboration, this work feels like a self-aware statement about the collaboration itself, framing the union of three provocateurs as a kind of buried treasure, rare and charged with cultural consequence.
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