ART
Aleksandra Mir |
Written 30 January |
Friday 17 April, 11:00Galerie Laurent Godin, 75003 [map]Aleksandra Mir
Plane Landing is a sculpture of an airplane in a permanent state of landing. Plane Landing goes back to 2001, when polish born
Aleksandra Mir first came up with the idea of creating a special, large balloon with the shape of a landing passenger airliner and then inflating it at various improbable places. It became both a scientific and artistic project.
Mir's work is not traditional; she often works outdoors on novel media and is known for challenging the boundaries of traditional artistic practice. She once transformed a Dutch beach into a lunar surface and declared herself the ‘first woman on the moon’. Amongst her other work she has published biographies of 'ordinary’ people and staged a nine-to-five cinema, showing disaster films for the unemployed. Aleksandra's inspiration is society at large and the world becomes her canvas.
Mir has presented her work at a number of international shows and has held solo exhibitions at galleries and museums including the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.
