Aleksandra Mir

ALEKSANDRA MIR (1967)
"Terenci" ("Local Library"), 2012.
Sculpture in different woods (juniper, ash, birch, cherry...)
Exemplar 1/6.
This piece was part of the artist's solo exhibition "Local Library" at the Joan Prats gallery in Barcelona, 2012.
Measures: 67.2 x 33 x 30 cm.
"Terenci" was part of the project "Local Library" (2012), in which she explored the intersection between sculpture and furniture. She combined shelves, tables and benches that became installations with which she reinterpreted the minimalism of the 1960s, to reflect on burning questions: these are what the artist calls "comfort pieces for the digital age", and imagines placed in domestic environments, in coexistence with modern electronic information devices: computers, plasma screens, mobile phones....
Aleksandra Mir is a Swedish-American contemporary artist known for her large-scale collaborative projects and anthropological methods, including rigorous archival research, oral history and fieldwork. Her work addresses travel, time, place, language, gender, identity, locality, nationality, globality, mobility, connectivity, performativity, representation, transition, translation and transgression. He has exhibited at Kunsthaus Zurich (2006), Tate Modern, London (2014), Tate Liverpool (2017), Modern Art Oxford (2017), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2009), M - Museum Leuven (2013),[5] Whitney Museum of American Art (2014), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2007), MoMA, New York (2012), YUZ Museum, Shanghai (2018), Whitney Biennial (2004), Biennale of Sydney (2002), Biennale di Venezia (2009), Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre (2015), Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2020) and Inhotim, Belo Horizonte (2021). Some projects: The How Not to Cookbook, (Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2009 and Rizzoli, NYC 2010) collected advice from 1000 home cooks around the world explaining what not to do in the kitchen. In Triumph he collected 2529 trophies from the public in Sicily and exhibited them all in an installation at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt (2009). He travelled to the South London Gallery for the London Olympics in 2012. Mir has created Plane Landing, a life-size helium-inflatable jet plane, intended not to fly, but to hover above the ground as "a sculpture of a jet plane in a permanent state of landing"[34]. In 2023, the Kunsthaus Zurich acquired the work for its permanent collection, having previously mounted it on the runway at Zurich airport.

The work is now on display at the Kunsthaus Zurich.