
Fight the Power
2025
Fight the Power stands as one of the most politically charged works in the Triple Trouble collection, merging Shepard Fairey's legacy of activist street art with Damien Hirst's pharmaceutical iconography to create a statement on systemic resistance and institutional control. The work employs PVC tiles to evoke the pixelated geometry of urban surfaces and protest banners, while scattered pills introduce Hirst's recurring meditation on medicine as both salvation and corporate manipulation. Fairey's bold, propaganda-inspired graphic style courses through the composition, echoing his OBEY campaign and the visual language of revolutionary posters that demand action over compliance. The title, borrowed from Public Enemy's anthem, charges the piece with decades of countercultural energy, positioning the artwork as a continuation of that defiant tradition. Together, the materials suggest that power is fought not only in the streets but also through the substances we are sold and the systems that profit from them.
- Medium
- PVC tiles and pills on painted paper
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Notes
Triple collaboration: Shepard Fairey x Damien Hirst x Invader
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