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The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
1991
A shark floats in formaldehyde at eye level. Death is physically present and mentally impossible to absorb.
Artist field note
Damien Hirst
Death, display and the price of looking.
Appears inThe Market Makers
The five in one idea
Hirst made mortality, medicine, spectacle and market value part of the same display system.