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Roger Hiorns to bury Airbus under the UK | Art | Agenda | Phaidon

“The piece itself will be a very immaterial one,” he told us. “You won’t actually see it from the surface of the world. It all belongs under the ground and the access to the aircraft will be through a stairwell down into it. I’m taking something that has a sense of the world – a symbol of globalisation and rendering it completely immobile.”

Hiorns says there were two main angles of thinking behind the initial idea. Firstly, it’s a technological ending to a thought process started by American artist Robert Smithson in the 1960s with his Earthworks pieces in which landscape and work of art were inextricably linked.

“The idea is that people can find themselves buried 50 metres underground in this rather uncanny scenario. The plane itself will become almost like a long barrow (Neolithic tomb). It would be a technological reflection of the west Kennet or the Solsbury Hill earthworks. So in a way it has a connection with this country in terms of space that already exists.”