She Wanted to Find the Most Perfect Form of Flying

In 1988 Hirst, still an art student at Goldsmiths College in London, organized the famous "Freeze" exhibition, which helped his generation of Young British Artists establish itself. From the beginning, his works have returned over and over to the notion of life and death as spectacular but transitory manifestations of an endless cycle. The life or death is distanced and placed within a glass displ…