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Damien Hirst: Pharmacy


 
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GOD

The artist believes that the most important aspect of the insect-o-cutor is that it 'symbolises some kind of god, something that kills without mercy, without emotion, without choice'. There are unlikely to be many flies in the gallery, but, according to Hirst, 'visitors to the gallery act as flies, people as flies, like an overview of life without emotion, that is as far as the metaphor should go'.