LOVER LOVE

LOVER LOVE, a new commission for the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art by Shu Lea Cheang (b. 1954), begins with a portal. A window is flung open and the gray wall of an apartment block dissolves into a turbulent, overcast sky, against which a smoky being is enveloped by a six-winged seraphim—an angel of the highest order. This collaboratively scripted film moves between physical and virtual space: between performances in a motel room, a junkyard, and city streets amid surrounding nature, we can see desert plants blooming anthropomorphic appendages and souls escaping inhuman oppression to take transhuman flight.

• Shu Lea CheangDirector

• Flor de NopalCast
• Vikó Velázquez MoralesCast
• ForrestCast
• Monica JonesCast
• MizSkodenCast
• Emilia VillegasCast
• NadirCast
• Jade A. DominguezCast
• Ash WednesdayCast
• Darla RodriguezCast
• Azrael FaymeCast
• Nimshi BernicèCast