This essay was written in conjunction with Lucia Love: Reflecting Pool, on view at CUE Art Foundation November 1 - December 11, 2014.

Lucia Love’s 2014 installation, Reflecting Pool, at CUE Art Foundation is theatrical and dramatic, and unlike most conventional exhibitions, in which the default setting is a brightly lit white cube, hers is a darkened, immersive environment, shadowy and murky, like a dream, or rather, like a nightmare.