Plane Landing
In 2003, Aleksandra Mir embarked on a long-term project entitled Plane Landing. The artist wanted to create a large inflatable balloon filled with helium in the form of an airliner. She called in a specialist company to produce a balloon 20 metres long and with a wingspan of 15 metres. For more than 20 years, Mir has been “landing” this lighter-than-air giant in various countries and iconic places, then photographing these improbable and poetic landings. In 2023, the Kunsthaus Zürich acquired this monumental work and, at the invitation of the Biennale Images Vevey, organised another landing. To accentuate its paradoxes, Plane Landing was presented half-deflated, indoors, in a room whose neo-baroque mouldings contrasted with the metal structures of the hangars.
