Salvador Dalí | The Queen of Venus (Jean-Michel Jarre’s Zero Gravity Cut) (1965)

Dalí’s fascination for The Goddess of Love never stopped throughout his entire life. To the point of sending a personal invitation to The Deity herself - and her entourage - for an Earthly nuclear lunch, amongst the flaming shards of Cap Creus... The ultimate cosmic move! Dalí designed the costumes for the Venusian monarch and her amphibian royal guard, drawing inspiration “from the Egyptian statues at Luxor and the Perpignan train station”. A prisoner of her S-shaped space suit, The Queen of the Venusians nevertheless remained formal throughout the course of the meal. The tablecloth was peppered with sea urchins, ‘the only animal’, Dalí used to say, ‘capable of space travel’. After their meal, the host prepared a modest apocalypse to entertain his beloved guest: 132 gallons of gas poured into the sea and set on fire! On that same afternoon, Dalí also started working on a second ’tableau vivant’: Venusians abducting Earthlings!