Damien Hirst

‘Enter the Infinite – Being’, a tapestry by Damien Hirst, takes the eye on an uneasy journey. Exploding from the centre are diamond and cross shapes, rendered largely in green and complimented by blue, white, yellow and red.  

Based on a ‘Spin Painting’ from 2008, Hirst accompanies the original’s aesthetic of randomness here with his careful mathematical process of division, reflection and repetition. Through its dynamic colours and patterns, the tapestry draws the eye into the work’s centre and then directs it out, overwhelming the eye which cannot contain the shifting perspectives of motion.  

This reflection on the limits and functions of the eye is matched by the medium: the tapestry relies on the eye to blend the small selection of colours used. Given the medium’s age-old associations with notions like belief and spectacle, Hirst’s choice to produce ‘Enter the Infinite – Being’ as a tapestry marks a further development in his ongoing interventions with these themes.  

‘Enter the Infinite – Being’ is an arresting work which appropriates the motion of the ‘Spin Painting’ process into a unique form and composition. In juxtaposing movement and stasis, Hirst produces a deeply entrancing work. 

Enter the Infinite - Being

Enter the Infinite

‘Enter the Infinite – Being’, a tapestry by Damien Hirst, takes the eye on an uneasy journey. Exploding from the centre are diamond and cross shapes, rendered largely in green and complimented by blue, white, yellow and red.  