LOVER LOVE is a four-channel video installation by Shu Lea Cheang, featuring music by Cheang’s longtime collaborator Aérea Negrot. Made with eight intergenerational trans and gender nonconforming performers in Tucson, Arizona, the film moves between motel rooms, junkyards, and desert landscapes where souls escape oppression to take transhuman flight. Viewers shift moveable screens on tracks, creating new video compositions on the spot and activating segments of Negrot's song “It’s Lover, Love,” a dreamy, minimalist meditation on the lingering traces of broken promises and vanished love—and a tribute to the late musician, who died by suicide in 2023.
