
Peace
2025
Peace offers a contemplative counterpoint within the Triple Trouble series, tempering Fairey's combative graphic vocabulary with a quieter, almost devotional sincerity that invites the viewer to question whether peace is a state achieved or merely prescribed. The PVC tiles lend the surface a manufactured, industrial quality, while the pills embedded within the painted paper ground the concept of peace in Hirst's pharmaceutical universe, asking whether tranquility in contemporary life is chemically mediated rather than genuinely felt. Fairey's signature flatness and bold tonal contrasts frame the work with the visual authority of a public declaration, transforming a single word into something closer to a command or a prayer. The tension between the idealism of the title and the clinical coldness of the materials creates a productive unease that is central to both artists' practices. This piece ultimately reflects a shared preoccupation with the commodification of human experience, from protest culture to the medicine cabinet.
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- 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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