Aleksandra Mir

Born 1967

Lives and works in Palermo

 
"Plane Landing in Zürich" is a series of photographs shot during the inflation of the plane in 2008, at Zurich Airport, as part of the exhibition « Shifting Identities », Kunsthaus Zurich, curated by Mirjam Varandinis.

 
Mir's vision centers on the creation of a purpose-built helium balloon in the shape and size of a passenger jet plane. Suspended above the ground, as in a permanent state of landing, the plane had its world première at Compton Verney against a backdrop of quintessential English landscape, before embarking on a global tour to other 'picture postcard' destinations. Plane Landing is an event : the production of the balloon, its travel to new destinations, the inflation, its 'landing' and the documentation of all these parts constitutes the artwork.



Alesandra Mir, Plane Landing in Switzerland #34, 176 x 122 cm, 2008.