Flying From the Ground
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The aeroplane, once-potent symbol of progressive modernity, has become a problematic and contradictory motif. Concorde crashed. Warplanes are flown virtually. Return to Malaga, £35. On 9/11 planes took lead roles in a video loop where real life trumped fiction over and over again. Flight paths redraw world maps and suggest escape and routine. The plane viewed from the ground can be a wistful, graceful thing too. These pieces allow symbolic, narrative or political aspects of the plane to play out ambiguously, whilst the artists occupy themselves with more formal concerns: the difference between looking, hearing and being.
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