COLE LU
He is not frightened anymore. The secret of movement is coming and going. He thought of all the words she whispered to him, moving through him like oxygen, how they turned him euphoric in the vast exchange of breaths, and how they turned unbreathable once they left his body. It is the hour of sleep; with the end of each glare, the night grows longer until he is the last glowing object. He stops his breath with his fingers; all of a sudden, he is back in the cave where the dream occurs. (Hypnos, variation 2), 2025
Burnt birch
20 x 16 in (51 x 41 cm)
(CL0002)
Cole Lu (1984, Taipei, Taiwan; lives and works in New York) combines literary and historical reference with autobiographical experiences to build mythologies that carry echoes of trauma, transformation, and regeneration.
His work has been exhibited at Chapter NY, New York; Herald St, London; Nir Altman, Munich; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston; Adler Beatty, New York; Deli Gallery, New York; Company Gallery; New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Each Modern, Taipei; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, among others.
