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In <em>Still<\/em>, a glimmering glass display case is lined with equally reflective medical devices and surgical equipment, neatly arranged side by side. The orderliness of this collection of pristine\nobjects plays on our fears of and fascination with modern medicine: the sculpture was specifically inspired by David Cronenberg\u2019s 1988 film Dead Ringers, a psychological thriller about twin doctors. While Hirst\u2019s practice has been described as sensationalist, he identifies himself as a \u201crealist.\u201d In 1996 he explained, \u201cI have always been after a kind of realism. I didn\u2019t want a painting of something. I wanted the thing itself.\u201d<p>\n","short_description":"Damien Hirst explained in 1996, \u201cI have always been after a kind of realism. I didn\u2019t want a painting of something. I wanted the thing itself.\u201d This work, from his well-known <em>Medicine Cabinets<\/em> series, consists of a glimmering glass display case lined with equally reflective surgical equipment. The orderliness of such pristine objects plays on our fears of and fascination with modern medicine.","dimensions":"195.6 \u00d7 251.5 \u00d7 50.8 cm (77 \u00d7 99 \u00d7 20 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":50,"width":251,"height":195,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Glass, stainless steel, steel, nickel, brass, rubber, and medical, surgical, and laboratory equipment","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Gift of Edlis Neeson Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Material: Journal of Contemporary Art 26 (1995), n.p. (ill.). \n\nRobert Chalmers, \u201cDissecting Damien\u201d Observer Life (May 20, 1995), 14 (color ill.).\n\nSarah Kent, \u201cArt: Preview - Damien Hirst\u201d Time Out (May 1995), n.p. (ill.).\n\nStuart Morgan, Damien Hirst: No Sense of Absolute Corruption, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1996), 60, 61 (color ill.), 62, 63 (detail, color ill.).\n\nBurkhard Riemschneider and Uta Grosenick, ed. Art at the Turn of the Millennium (New York: Taschen, 1999), 227 (color ill.).\n\nAngelika Taschen, ed., Aesthetic Surgery (New York: Taschen, 2005), 352\u2013352, fig. 52 (color ill.). \n\nDamien Hirst, I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now (New York: Monacelli Press, 1997), 94, 95 (color ill.).\n\nHoney Luard, White Cube: 44 Duke Street, St. James\u2019s London, vol. I (Gottingen: Steidl, 2002), n.p. (color ill.).\n\nLiam Gillick, White Cube: 44 Duke Street, St. James\u2019s London, vol. II (Gottingen: Steidl, 2002), 124, 125 (color ill.).\n\nAnn Gallagher, Damien Hirst, exh. cat. (London: Tate Publishing, 2012), 128, 129 (color ill.), 231.\n\nRudi Fuchs, Damien Hirst: Cornucopia, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2010), 76, 77 (color ill.), 127. \n\nJames Rondeau, Edlis\/Neeson Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press), 72, 73, pl.29, 110, 113, n. 38, 131.","exhibition_history":"London, White Cube, Damien Hirst: Still, May 19\u2013July 1, 1995, no cat.\n\nMonte Carlo, Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, Damien Hirst: Cornucopia, Apr. 1\u2013Sept. 30, 2010, no cat. no.\n\nLondon, Tate Modern, Damien Hirst, Apr. 4\u2013Sept. 9, 2012, no cat. no.","provenance_text":"The artist; sold through White Cube, London to Stefan Edlis, May 18, 1995 [copy of invoice in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 21, 2015.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":246,"fiscal_year":2015,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":false,"is_zoomable":false,"max_zoom_window_size":843,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":false,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":10.5801,"color":{"h":192,"l":44,"s":64,"percentage":0.0006645600114304321,"population":4},"latitude":41.8803655242959,"longitude":-87.621598039875,"latlon":"41.880365524296,-87.621598039875","is_on_view":true,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":"Gallery 295","gallery_id":25471,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Installation","artwork_type_id":16,"department_title":"Contemporary Art","department_id":"PC-8","artist_id":62639,"artist_title":"Damien Hirst","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[62639],"artist_titles":["Damien Hirst"],"category_ids":["PC-8"],"category_titles":["Contemporary Art"],"term_titles":["installation","glass"],"style_id":null,"style_title":null,"alt_style_ids":[],"style_ids":[],"style_titles":[],"classification_id":"TM-1152","classification_title":"installation","alt_classification_ids":[],"classification_ids":["TM-1152"],"classification_titles":["installation"],"subject_id":null,"alt_subject_ids":[],"subject_ids":[],"subject_titles":[],"material_id":"TM-2453","alt_material_ids":[],"material_ids":["TM-2453"],"material_titles":["glass"],"technique_id":null,"alt_technique_ids":[],"technique_ids":[],"technique_titles":[],"theme_titles":[],"image_id":"a4194d93-2a46-73ff-405b-1a546f237bc9","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":[],"sound_ids":[],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["2015.142"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Still"],"weight":1895,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-07-02T12:11:33-05:00","updated_at":"2026-07-02T15:34:11-05:00","timestamp":"2026-07-12T01:54:08-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. 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