Grounded

Mae Community

Installation

With GROUNDED, the artist presents an immersive and architectural installation that extends across the entire gallery space. In the entrance area, the wingless skeleton of a model DA42-VI aircraft is installed nose-down, suspended diagonally from the ceiling. Titled END-OF-LIFE cycle one, the piece points to the descent of the downstairs gallery space. A sprawling floor installation, END-OF-LIFE cycle two, that is composed of recycled carbon fiber and paraffin wax covers the exhibition floor; it is a fragmentary to-scale visual transfer of the decommissioned runway at Tempelhof airport, Berlin. A series of small-to-large-format paintings made of the same materials, detailing industrial design and aircraft life cycles, hang on the wall, some placed proportionally to resemble airplane windows and others matching the scale of mechanical objects within the space. These themes are reflected in the sculpture titled END-OF-LIFE cycle four, which consists of a wax landing gear and three aircraft tires from an Airbus A300 and a fourth tire in the form of an ephemeral paraffin sculpture that is slowly melting away throughout the course of the exhibition.