“the culmination of Hirst’s life-long investigation into our almost-spiritual relationship with the rigours of science and the pharmaceutical industry”

In Schizophrenogenesis Hirst invokes the minimalist aesthetic of the medicinal pill, an object designed to appeal, to aid, to relieve to cure. “Pills are a brilliant little form, better than any minimalist art. They’re all designed to make you buy them... they come out of flowers, plants, things from the ground, and they make you feel good, you know, to just have a pill, to feel beauty.” - Damien Hirst