LOVER LOVE

LOVER LOVE (2026)

Animation

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.

Director: Shu Lea Cheang

Casts

	Flor de Nopal as
	Vikó Velázquez Morales as
	Forrest as
	Monica Jones as
	MizSkoden as
	Emilia Villegas as
	Nadir as
	Jade A. Dominguez as
	Ash Wednesday as
	Darla Rodriguez as
	Azrael Fayme as
	Nimshi Bernicè as

Crew