I: They Walked In Line: Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst
I: They Walked In Line
From Poisons + Remedies
13 ¾ x 11 inches | 2010
Published by Gagosian Gallery & Other Criteria

Printed Ephemera (framed)

I: They Walked In Line marks the opening plate of Damien Hirst’s Poisons + Remedies series, setting the tone for a body of work that explores the fine line between treatment and toxicity. With its title echoing themes of obedience, conformity, and control, the piece invokes a clinical order that is at once reassuring and quietly ominous. Rendered in Hirst’s signature pharmaceutical style, it mirrors the structure of a medicine label—precise, detached, and deeply coded.

Published in 2010 by Gagosian Gallery and Other Criteria as part of the limited-edition Poisons + Remedies book, this 13 ¾ x 11 inch work initiates a conceptual journey through belief, mortality, and the societal systems we rely on to hold ourselves together.

An essential entry point for collectors interested in the full arc of the series—and Hirst’s wider meditation on science, trust, and the fragility of modern life.