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Damien Hirst, Theodora (The Empresses, H10-3), 2022
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Damien Hirst
Theodora (The Empresses, H10-3)

, 2022
Laminated giclée print on aluminium panel with diamond dust
Signed by the artist
100 × 100 cm (39.4 × 39.4 in)
Edition of 3315
FAM-E: DHI-74-1651574079-X-3315
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About Damien Hirst

As much a showman as an artist, Damien Hirst’s vaulted ambition and natural charisma quickly propelled him into the public eye and to the very center of the art world. Damien Hirst is indisputably the most recognizable artist to emerge from the YBAs in the late 1980s. His humble upbringing in Leeds—that saw him twice arrested for shoplifting—was shrugged aside as he launched himself into the art stratosphere. During his second year at… Read more

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Damien Hirst series "Empresses" is an homage to 5 amazing women with a major relevance in history. Little known for western culture, their greatness is celebrated by Hirst. Theodora was the most important Empress of the Byzantine era was married to Justinian I from 527 until her death in 548. Despite her humble origins, along with her husband, Theodora is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and in the Oriental Orthodox Church . Even she did not rule officially Theodora was said to be the ruler on the shades and was definitely the partner in deliberations for her husband who took her wise and certain advise in key situations of their reign. Damien Hirst's Theodora depicts an apparently chaos of butterflies that is nothing as such. This composition represents the female gender symbol. Taking a closer look, there are glittering red lines that divide the work in three half horizontally and the work is clearly symmetrical to the vertical line. The paired butterflies on the center top create a circle and the pair of butterflies at the lower margin simulate an horizontal line, both forms merge with the vertical visual line. Theodora encouraged policies that benefited women such as illegalizing trafficking of girls. Justinian I dictaminated laws that set the death penalty for rape, expanded the rights of women in and property ownership, gave mothers some guardianship rights over their children, and forbid the killing of a wife who committed adultery, all of them under Theodoras involvement.

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