Photograph shows an airplane shot down by Native Americans using wooden arrows.
Photograph shows an airplane shot down by Native Americans using wooden arrows.
A photograph purportedly showing an airplane with dozens of wooden arrowsÂ stuck into its underside is frequently shared online, accompanied by one of a number of fabricated backstories: < Someone sent me this as the natives are protesting all the pipelines being built. Greenpeace supplied all the arrows since they are more environmentally friendly than bullets. > In April 2014, the web site Fellowship of the Minds shared the same image along with test holding that it depicted President Obamaâ€™s plane after he undertook a flight over a reservation in Oklahoma: < Obama took a private plane flight over an Indian reservation in Oklahoma. This is what happened â€¦ > This photograph does not show a plane that was attacked by Native Americans. Rather, it captures an installation that was created by the art collective Los Carpinteros. The piece, entitled AviÃ£o (Plane),Â was displayed at the Faena Art Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina in May 2012: < The exhibition presented in the Molinos Room at the Faena Arts Center consists of the works AviÃ£o (Plane), El Barrio (The Neighbourhood) and the site specific instillation Alumbrado PÃºblico (Street Lighting). These three works, realized with completely different techniques, are unified by the same question: how far is it good to be civilized? Through an economy of improvisation and precariousness, the artistâ€™s work utilizes industrial objects to ironically challenge the notions of civilization and the mechanisms of perception by juxtaposing affluent western society against a rationed society with minimal consumption. An imposing Piper Comanche aircraft pierced by wooden arrows makes up AviÃ£o, a large-scale installation alluding to the development and conquest of space, and symbolizing the cultural shock caused by technological progress in various different civilizations. >
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