Indy Airport: Rare Video Filmed on Airfield to Run Through December 2019

Rare video art captured onsite at the Indianapolis International Airport (IND) is on exhibit between the departures level and baggage claim through the end of 2019. The video, An Open Flight created by local Hoosier artist Liz Wierzbicki, collages video and physical images into a fantasy composite of a flight experience.

Of all the rotating art displayed through the past decade at the Indy airport, artwork filmed or photographed onsite is rare. Only displays exhibited in 2013 and 2014 have preceded Wierzbicki’s most recent work.

“It's not often passengers get the perspective from the airfield that Liz’s video captures," said IAA Executive Director Mario Rodriguez. "But that's what the IND arts program is about – providing unique views through the lens of individual local artists and their experiences. We're proud to provide that as part of the overall IND passenger experience.”

Wierzbicki’s work leverages the landscape of the airfield at night to reveal three different perspectives of planes in flight – ending with a sunrise emerging over the airfield. This collage of various images spanning across time uses clouds and sky as metaphors for the infinite complexity of the mind, and the junction of earth and sky to represent the mind and body. The curtains pulling back and closing at the start and finish of the video reflect the space between the physical and emotional self. Wierzbicki’s video is a part of the Indy airport’s ongoing video program, which is a collaboration between the Indy airport and the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

To learn more about the new art exhibit, visit: https://www.ind.com/community/arts-program/temporary/an-open-flight