Shu Lea Cheang: LOVER LOVE
On view through January 3, 2027
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
New York, New York
www.leslielohman.org
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.
Find out more here: https://leslielohman.org/exhibi…/shu-lea-cheang-lover-love
[Image: Exhibition view courtesy the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art and the artist.]
