Exhibition
Kennedy Space Center
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Location
FL, USA
Year
2018
EXHIBITIONS
California Science Center Museum I Kennedy Space Center
Rémy x Atlantis: The Infinite and the Iconic
People look to the stars but the real story lies in how we get there. Atlantis isn’t just a spaceship, it’s a symbol of collective ambition, a monument to human progress and ingenuity. It carries the weight of dreams, risks and possibilities. To look at it is to witness the poetry of technology where the infinite meets the tangible. The Atlantis shuttle, a pinnacle of American space exploration traveled over 200 million kilometers in orbit bridging humanity’s ingenuity with the vast unknown. Each mission was a testament to the Nietzschean ideal of transcendence humanity striving to surpass itself to become Übermensch. Yet this monumental dream is steeped in paradox, the most advanced technology is inherently human etched with fragility and imperfection.
Beneath the massive scarred belly of Atlantis Rémy reinvents the language of Pop Art for a cosmic era. Where Warhol elevated the ordinary, the soup can, the Brillo box, Rémy transforms the space shuttle into a Campbell’s Soup Can for the universe. It is at once an industrial relic, a visual icon and a symbol of an entire generation’s hopes and aspirations.
The Story of Atlantis: The Machine and the Myth
Built in the 1980s, Atlantis carried humanity into the unknown, participating in some of NASA’s most iconic missions. Deploying the Hubble Telescope, opening new windows to the cosmos and redefining our understanding of the universe and Constructing the International Space Station where nations came together above earthly divisions in a shared space for discovery. Like the great myths of ancient Greece, Atlantis is a story of conquest and fragility. Each return to Earth marked its surface with the scars of re-entry, a reminder that the pursuit of perfection demands sacrifice. It is a machine made beautiful not by its design but by its utility, a vessel that carried humanity’s greatest questions into the unknown.
Under this monument Rémy presents an artwork that acts as a cultural and philosophical mirror where the sublime is a blend of the infinite and the intimate. Logos, faces and bold colors collide in fragments, Mickey Mouse, David Bowie, and the Joker each figure layered with meaning. Mickey is childhood daring to dream. The Joker reflects the chaos and folly of our most audacious ambitions. Bowie with his crimson lightning bolt whispers “We can be heroes, just for one day". Here, Rémy captures this delicate balance. The Rockit-Exhibition is not about space itself, it’s about the human soul, the courage to dream, to fail and to try again.
This exhibition creates a living tension between the cold precision of technology and the vibrant emotion of art. The fusion of these forces reminds us that behind every shuttle and every mission is the human soul, dreaming, daring and defying. Rémy transcends contemporary symbols to expose their hidden depth.“Machines may take us to the stars but art brings us back to Earth. Rockit and Atlantis remind us that infinity is not only above us, it exists within us, in our dreams, our flaws and our rebellion"
Exhibition
California Science Center Museum
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Location
CA, USA
Year
2018
Rémy x Endeavour : The soul Beneath the steel
Endeavour is not a story of reaching the stars. It is a story of return of the beauty that emerges when ambition meets its limits. Suspended in stillness after traveling millions of kilometers the shuttle no longer flies, it rests, its surface battered, its body silent. But the soul remains, it bears the marks of its 25 missions each scar a testament to human ingenuity and the price of progress. Endeavour reminds us of the art of arrival, a quieter more fragile triumph.
Rémy places Rockit beneath this monumental body as if to breathe life into its stillness. This is not Pop Art in the Warholian sense of consumption, it is resurrection. Icons like Mickey Mouse, Bowie and the Joker appear fractured, their edges softened as if worn by time. But they are not broken, they are reborn imbued with the same soul that Endeavour carries the ambition, the imperfections, the humanity.
The shuttle once a marvel of technology now speaks a different language. It is no longer about progress alone, it is about presence. A “vieille âme” it reminds us that behind every machine, every innovation, there are stories, of engineers, astronauts, dreamers and artists. Rémy captures this essence and amplifies this tension, between the industrial and the emotional, the monumental and the intimate.
This exhibition is not about escape, it is about what we bring back, our dreams, our questions and the fragile beauty of trying again. Where Atlantis was ambition, Endeavour is legacy, it is the art of holding on to what remains. As Rémy shows us: “Machines may carry us forward but it is art that reminds us where we came from. Progress is a loop and Endeavour brings us home.”
