The Miraculous Journey By Damien Hirst
Fourteen towering bronze sculptures tracing fetal growth from conception to a monumental newborn.
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This guide to the fourteen bronze figures outside Sidra Medicine in Doha follows Damien Hirst's sculpture from his own children's ultrasound scans to a reception that split the city in 2013, when hospital officials covered the newly unveiled work within days. Hospital staff blamed construction dust for the cover-up; word online blamed nudity, in a country where public nudity is rare. The sculptures stayed wrapped for five years, until Qatar's arts patron Sheikha al-Mayassa answered critics with a verse of scripture rather than an apology.
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