The Art Newspaper — Rocket Man
Jacky Tsai’s Interstellar Adventure
17th Jul 2025
The Art Newspaper featured Jacky Tsai’s collaboration with LandSpace on 17 July 2025, speaking with the artist about Chang’e Flying to the Moon and the experience of bringing contemporary art into space.
The article explores how Tsai reimagined the Chinese moon goddess on the exterior of a ZQ-2E Y2 rocket, connecting mythology with an actual journey beyond Earth. In conversation with the publication, he describes working alongside engineers and adapting his palette to the technical requirements of a launch vehicle.
Published in the newspaper’s Diary section, the piece offers a personal view of the project’s ambition, practical constraints and fleeting material life. It closes with Tsai’s characteristically playful reflection: “I hope aliens liked it.”