🚀 First Spaceship On Venus (Pink Champagne): Sylvie Fleury, Katy Perry & the Cosmic Scandal of Gender in Space
While the world gossips about Katy Perry’s alleged involvement in the Blue Orbit Criticism, the Kunsthaus ZĂĽrich quietly holds a glimmering, pink-hued spaceship that has been raising feminist questions long before the headlines caught up.
Sylvie Fleury’s “First Spaceship On Venus (Pink Champagne)” – a shimmering fiberglass sculpture coated in lacquer and glitter – may look like interstellar pop glam, but it’s a sharp-edged critique in disguise. Acquired in 2021 by the Kunsthaus ZĂĽrich and now part of its permanent collection, the artwork bridges space exploration with Earth-bound gender politics in a way that’s weirdly timely.
Let’s talk connections.
🚨 Blue Orbit & the Question of Power
In recent weeks, Katy Perry’s high-profile spaceflight with Blue Origin—a spectacle of suborbital selfies and zero-gravity stunts—has reignited global debate around celebrity space tourism. While no confirmed scandal has surfaced, the mission has been met with scrutiny: from environmental critiques to accusations of elitism and performative empowerment. At its core, the controversy isn’t just about who gets to ride a rocket, but who gets to imagine, fund, and ultimately own the narrative of space.
That’s where Fleury’s work cuts in—pink, sparkly, and subversive.
🌌 Fleury’s Feminist Futurism
Since the 1990s, Sylvie Fleury has used the aesthetics of consumerism and glamour to challenge masculinity-coded narratives in art, luxury, and science. Her fascination with space travel isn’t rooted in rockets and physics—but in the symbolic erasure of women from these arenas. With “First Spaceship On Venus (Pink Champagne)”, Fleury imagines an alternate history: what if the first spaceship wasn’t cold, grey, and industrial—but soft, sensual, and unapologetically feminine?
By coating the spaceship in a champagne-pink hue and layering it with glitter, Fleury doesn’t diminish its power—she reclaims it.
đź’… A Cosmic Rebuttal
In light of the Blue Orbit revelations, Fleury’s sculpture reads like a futuristic rebuttal. When billionaires and pop icons live for space dominance, the question isn’t just how far we can go—but who is allowed to dream, to build, to travel, to represent humanity beyond the stars.
Fleury’s spaceship isn’t functional—but it’s revolutionary. It demands that space not be a playground for the few, but a shared future that reflects diversity, femininity, and glittering rebellion.
🌠From Zurich to the Stars
At a time when the lines between pop culture, tech capitalism, and space conquest blur into one dazzling headline after another, Sylvie Fleury reminds us: the future of space needs more than rockets. It needs vision. It needs critique. And yes—it needs glitter.
💫 Want to see the future of space from a different perspective? Visit the Kunsthaus Zürich and step aboard Fleury’s sparkling spaceship. You won’t need a ticket to orbit—just a willingness to question who’s in the cockpit.
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