phlight press release
Imagine,
If
you
can,
that
you
wake
up
one
morning
to
find
a
full
scale
section
of
aircraft
wing
dissecting
your
living
space.
What
could
possibly
have
happened?
Everything
seems
undisturbed,
there
is
no
rubble
or
evidence
of
a
crash.
Rather
it
is
as
if
time
has
stopped
while
a
ghost
plane
flies
through
your
apartment.
You
go
to
touch
the
metallic
surface
believing
that
it
will
vanish,
some
apparition
or
dream,
but
the
cold
metal
does
not
yield.
Simon Tyszko has contracted engineers to build a full size replica of a section of a dakota wing that literally cuts through his living space, a 5th floor flat in Fulham, London. Tyszko has removed some of the internal walls of his flat so that he cannot escape this intervention, be he having a bath or preparing a meal. He will live with this wing for one year, in which time, the installation will be open to the public on a couple of days per week, viewed by appointment or through webcasts on the Phlight web site. Also during this period, a number of writers will be responding to Tyszko's installation, in the form of texts for a forthcoming publication at the end of the project.
Obviously an aeroplane in an apartment cannot help but reference the horrifying events of September 11th, but Tyszko's attempt to live with this monumental metaphor makes this an optimistic exploration of potential ways forward. We may all have to live with the unseen threat imposed upon us since that fateful day, but Tyszko is literally living in the shadow of the wing. Recognising this absolute, Phlight will open on September 11th 2007, but apart from this, no attempt has been made to link this work to the events of this anniversary. It merely becomes an architectural fact, something for the artist to negotiate in his everyday existence. For Tyszko it is a monument to ideas and four years planning that he now has to live with. For the rest of us, it is the opportunity to witness this terrifying yet beautiful intervention in domestic space and contemplate our own reactions.
Simon
Tyszko
lives
and
works
in
London.
Having
never
felt
the
need
to
conform
to
careerism
he
took
a
twenty
year
break
in
his
art
education
to
work
with
bands
like
the
Clash.
He
showed
with
Jibby
Bean
in
the
late
Nineties
and
has
recently
been
included
in
exhibitions
and
events
at
the
ICA,
London
and
the
Jerwood
Gallery,
London
Chris
Hammond
MOT
Gallery
London
...
