Francesco Arena

Francesco Arena, 2020 (one year-long tapestry), 2020. Recycled plastic and natural yarns, cm 270 × 190.
Francesco Arena, 2020 (one year-long tapestry), 2020. Recycled plastic and natural yarns, cm 270 × 190.

In 2020 Francesco Arena walked 659.5 km divided into 1,074,976 steps. The tapestry contains such a number of steps and this very distance: the yarn of which the tapestry is made is 659.5 km long. The tapestry consists of twelve different yarns, one for each month of the year: twelve natural yarns, twelve variations of colour, twelve different lengths each as long as the distance walked in the relative month. The twelve yarns/steps/distance make up the surface on which the phrase “The finite part of possible infinity” is written, both vertically and horizontally, suggesting the possibility of something finite that could potentially be infinite, such as a path, a time, etc.