"The Spastics Society collection box of a girl with teddy bear and leg in callipers was a familiar site in the 1960s and ‘70s, but fell out of fashion in the 1980s as a disempowering image of pity. Hirst has remade the splinted girl, scuffed her appearance and burgled her charity box to highlight the erosion of society’s values and put the issues on a pedestal."
Damien Hurst's Charity first appeared outside the White Cube in 2003 as a part of his Romance in the age of uncertancy exhibition. Charity, the 22 feet high statue will be situated here for 12 months.
Not sure if you can see from this photograph but all over the floor by the entrance are huge coins, probably the size of your hand. I was itching to pick one up but I remember the last time I touched an instillation...don't piss of the curators!
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