Nuit des Bains — Tabarak Allah Abbas / Roman Selim Khereddine

Mitchell Anderson presents a new edition and bodies of work examining the legacy of post‑war astronautics. Drawing on graphite relics from a V‑2 rocket, children’s drawings and mural motifs, the exhibition stages colour‑in pages alongside wall drawings and hybrid objects that hover between craft and ready‑made. Mixed‑media pieces employ encaustic, embroidery and hand‑written texts to interrogate the rocket as an icon that condenses both promise and violence, situating technological histories within intimate material registers.

Mitchell Anderson (1985) presents a new edition alongside recent works exploring the legacy of postwar rocketry. Drawing on graphite relics from a WWII V-2 rocket — the technological precursor to modern spaceflight — the exhibition features coloring-book pages derived from children’s rocket drawings, displayed alongside large wall drawings tracing launch trajectories and objects at the crossroads of craft and ready-made. Through these works, the rocket emerges as a contemporary global icon, embodying both promise and violence, and reflecting the anxieties, fantasies, and contradictions that shape our visions of the future.

Conversation in English.
As part of Nuit des Bains.