The first sculpture installed here from Damien Hirst’s Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable exhibition is Hydra & Kali – a 17-foot-high sculpture depicting the Hindu goddess fighting a huge, many-headed serpent.

The marriage of a many-limbed woman and seven-headed snake was conceivably informed by a motif on the east frieze of the Altar of Zeus at Pergamon (late second century BCE), in which the goddess Hecate is shown with three faces and six arms, wielding a torch, sword and spear, in battle against a snake-tailed giant.

This sculpture is part of Damien Hirst’s Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable series, first exhibited at the 2017 Venice Biennale and can bee found along The Tide and River Thames