Installation art can look like a gallery setting but it could also be a way that the artist transplants different worlds. It can be made up of many different objects and ideas. Seeing something in a different concept can change a viewers ideas on installation art. It is a type of art that the viewer physically enters into, and is often hard to define because it could be any array of objects in a space so it could just be a normal piece on a gallery or it could be anywhere. Presence is never the main point, but its about the total sense. Damien Hirst did installation art, he did "Pharmacy" which represents a real pharmacy and it represents life and death and the body. There are four bottles on the counter filled with water and food coloring which represent the four elements; water, fire, air, and earth. These were traditionally used to symbolize a pharmacy, so Hirst uses this to represent the past. Hirst also uses symbolization with him placing an insect-o-cutor. Hirst says that it is unlikely for there to be many flies in a pharmacy, but that people act as flies in the pharmacy when they come to look at it.
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