One main aspect of Damien Hirst's Pharmacy exhibition at the Tate Modern was the fact that it began by entering a room that placed the visitor right behind a Pharmacy counter, "it is important for the visitor to enter the installation at the desk, which gives the illusion of stumbling into a pharmacy from behind the scenes." - Hirst
The concepts behind many of the objects are fascinating. The Insect-o-cutor "symbolises some kind of God, something that kills without mercy, without emotion, without choice." which goes hand in hand with the holes Hirst cut through the Tate's window panes and the bowls of honey combs on stools through-out the Pharmacy, making Hirst somewhat of a serial killer, tut tut.
The bottles contain water and food colouring to represent the four elements, earth, air, fire and water.
Cabinets and medicine,
Restaurant
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