Fourteen large bronze sculptures by Damien Hirst line the plaza outside Sidra Medicine hospital in West Bay, tracing the development of a human foetus from fertilisation to birth. The work is frank and anatomically detailed; the final standing newborn is 14 metres tall. It was installed in 2013 and has become one of Doha's more talked-about public art pieces.
The sculptures are on public display and accessible without charge. The hospital itself is a women and children's medical facility. The location — in the middle of a busy West Bay district — means the sculptures sit amid traffic and glass towers rather than a designed setting, which gives the work a certain incongruous intensity.