Opium, 2000 Barbara Kruger This artwork is from a

This artwork is from a set of three prints

I started taking cues from printmaking and putting them back into paintings

published by Other Criteria in London

This work is an edition based on the original painting "SC56

designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessman Edgar J

Opium, 2000 Barbara Kruger This artwork is from aCreated in 2000, Opium belongs to Damien Hirsts broader exploration of pharmaceutical culture, a theme that became central to his artistic identity in the late 1990s and early 2000s. During this period, Hirst was deeply engaged with the ways modern society relies on medicationboth physically and psychologicallyand how pharmaceuticals have come to symbolize comfort, stability, and even salvation in the contemporary world. The late 1990s marked a shift