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Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst — Faulty Dreams

Faulty Dreams

2025

Faulty Dreams marks a charged meeting point between Fairey's graphic urgency and Hirst's conceptual provocations, making it one of the most symbolically loaded collaborations within the Triple Trouble series. The use of household gloss paint — a material Hirst has long employed to democratize and challenge fine art pretension — combined with collage on canvas creates a surface that is at once domestic and disquieting. Fairey's stencil-driven visual language and Hirst's interest in mortality, illusion, and consumer culture appear to converge in a title that frames aspiration itself as flawed or corrupted. The tension between the glossy, seductive finish of household paint and the fragmented nature of collage mirrors the work's thematic suggestion that the dreams we are sold are inherently unreliable. Together, the two artists produce a work that is greater than the sum of its parts, probing the gap between promise and reality in contemporary life.

Medium
Household gloss and collage on canvas
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Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst, Faulty Dreams, 2025

Faulty Dreams marks a charged meeting point between Fairey's graphic urgency and Hirst's conceptual provocations, making it one of the most symbolically loaded collaborations within the Triple Trouble series. The use of household gloss paint — a material Hirst has long employed to democratize and challenge fine art pretension — combined with collage on canvas creates a surface that is at once domestic and disquieting. Fairey's stencil-driven visual language and Hirst's interest in mortality, illusion, and consumer culture appear to converge in a title that frames aspiration itself as flawed or corrupted. The tension between the glossy, seductive finish of household paint and the fragmented nature of collage mirrors the work's thematic suggestion that the dreams we are sold are inherently unreliable. Together, the two artists produce a work that is greater than the sum of its parts, probing the gap between promise and reality in contemporary life.

Medium
Household gloss and collage on canvas
Dimensions
274.3 x 254 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Abstract Dreams, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, American Contemporary, 2020s, Collage Technique, Pop Art, Introspective Mood, Vibrant Colors, Canvas-based

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