Medicine Cabinets

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Medicine Cabinets is a seminal series of conceptual artworks by Damien Hirst featuring wall-mounted cabinet structures filled with pharmaceutical packaging, exploring themes of medicine, mortality, and consumer culture.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork series
artForm mixed media
associatedWith Goldsmiths generation of artists
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Damien Hirst NERFINISHED
depicts pharmaceutical products
describedAs seminal series of conceptual artworks
displayedAs wall-mounted installation
exploresTheme commodification of health
faith in science
life and death
pharmaceutical industry
genre conceptual art
installation art
hasInfluenceOn contemporary installation art
hasPart individual medicine cabinets
hasStyle clinical aesthetic
minimalist display
inception 1988
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainSubject consumer culture
medicine
mortality
movement Young British Artists NERFINISHED
notableWorkOf Damien Hirst NERFINISHED
partOf Damien Hirst early works
significance helped establish Damien Hirst’s reputation
usesMaterial pharmaceutical packaging
wall-mounted cabinet structures

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