CITIES OF LOST MEMORY: ARTWORKS
Alexandre Mitchell is an author, an archaeologist and an artist. His drawings of historical events and figures offer us a perception of History that is neither smooth nor comfortable, but a field of contradictions that invites us to reflect and debate freely. He brings the vestiges of our past to life, offering us another guided tour of history through his drawings.
“The Vanished”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2022
“Superstition”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2023
“Mosul will rise again”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2022
“Respect the gods”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2023
“Finding new gods”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2022
“Testing Germania, 1941-1944 (Berlin)”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2022
“Redemption is in the deep”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2023
“Ayodhya”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2023
“Rising from the Temple’s ashes” (Yavne), Alexandre Mitchell, 2022
“The winter famine in Arnhem, 1945”, Alexandre Mitchell 2022
“Bring Him Home”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2023
“The Lost children: Franco’s Spain (Valley of the Fallen)”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2022
“The fractured mask (Kharkiv, 2022)”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2022
“Dante sotto la città”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2022
“Brothers”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2023
“Hiroshima”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2023
“Where Liberty goes to die”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2022
“Miroir de sanglots (Bordeaux)”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2022
“The devourer of lives: Leopold II’s Congo”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2022
“Dreaming of Babel”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2022
“Brotherly love”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2023
“No Voice”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2024
“Mary 2.0”, Alexandre Mitchell, 2024
Cities of Lost Memory: the project
Cities of Lost memory is an artistic and historical project that Alexandre has been working on since the COVID lockdown. It consists of a series of cities drawn in Indian ink (brush and pen). Drawing skills are part of the archaeologist’s toolbox, but Alexandre only started drawing ‘creatively’ since 2021. He noticed a dire need for facts in a world hampered by too much information, wokeness, conspiracy theories and disinformation. Just like an archaeologist, his drawings bring the vestiges of the past to life in the present, offering us through his visual perspective, an alternative tour of History.