A Voyage into the Moon
by Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
Essay by Ive Stevenheydens
Hiroshima, 6 August 1945: a sudden flash, a violent explosion, the atomic bomb. Somewhere on the Moon, a creature feels under threat. Shortly after that, the Japanese army receives a signal from a mysterious astronaut. Are we no longer alone in the universe?
This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition:
A Voyage into the Moon - Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
Le Botanique - Centre Culturel de la Communauté française, Brussels (BE)
09.12.2021 – 06.02.2022
Curator Ive Stevenheydens
Head of exhibitions Grégory Thirion
Exhibitions assistant Mathilde Manche
Essay by Ive Stevenheydens
Dutch and French versions available at
http://cedricnoel.com/reports/, https://mirasanders.org/texts/
Graphic design Johanne Boca, Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
Translation Helen Simpson
Copy editing Ann Michiels
Cover Skin_chpt 7
Photographs by Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
pp. 4 - 29, 40 - 41, 48 - 51, 56 - 57, 60 - 62
Exhibition photographer Luk Vander Plaetse
pp. cover, 34 - 39, 42 - 47, 52 - 55, 58 - 61
Fonts: Comic Neue by C. Rozynski with H. Papazian,
Kosugi Maru by Motoya
Printing and binding Graphius Brussels nv
200 ex.
This publication was made possible thanks to the support of Le Botanique - Centre Culturel de la Communauté française, represented by Paul-Henri Wauters, General Manager, Flanders State of the Art and the SOFAM.