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Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst — Fuck

Fuck

2025

Fuck arrives as the most viscerally provocative entry in the Triple Trouble collection, channeling the raw transgressive energy that has defined both Fairey's street art origins and Hirst's career-long habit of confronting audiences with discomfort and excess. The PVC tiles impose a rigid, almost bureaucratic structure on the work's surface, creating an ironic tension with the expletive at its center, as if the profane has been legitimized, framed, and sold back to us through the language of fine art and institutional display. Pills scattered across the painted paper complete Hirst's signature vocabulary, suggesting that transgression itself has been medicalized and commodified in contemporary culture. Fairey's bold graphic treatment elevates the word to the status of a rally cry or a manifesto, consistent with his practice of borrowing the visual grammar of authority to subvert it. The piece functions as both a cathartic release and a sharp critique, questioning who gets to say what, in what context, and at what price.

Medium
PVC tiles and pills on painted paper
Dimensions

Notes

Triple collaboration: Shepard Fairey x Damien Hirst x Invader

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Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst, Fuck, 2025

Fuck arrives as the most viscerally provocative entry in the Triple Trouble collection, channeling the raw transgressive energy that has defined both Fairey's street art origins and Hirst's career-long habit of confronting audiences with discomfort and excess. The PVC tiles impose a rigid, almost bureaucratic structure on the work's surface, creating an ironic tension with the expletive at its center, as if the profane has been legitimized, framed, and sold back to us through the language of fine art and institutional display. Pills scattered across the painted paper complete Hirst's signature vocabulary, suggesting that transgression itself has been medicalized and commodified in contemporary culture. Fairey's bold graphic treatment elevates the word to the status of a rally cry or a manifesto, consistent with his practice of borrowing the visual grammar of authority to subvert it. The piece functions as both a cathartic release and a sharp critique, questioning who gets to say what, in what context, and at what price.

Medium
PVC tiles and pills on painted paper
Dimensions
152 x 111 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Text-Based, Mixed Media, Pharmaceutical, Controversial, Modern, Provocative, Contemporary Art, Rebellious Mood, Confrontational, Commercial Materials

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