Untitled (The Beginning of Love, the End of Law)

Paul Chan is a multimedia artist whose work encompasses collage and drawing, multichannel video and projection, and kinetic sculpture. He is intellectually voracious, drawing on a wide array of philosophical, textual and visual sources. In 2010 he founded the digital imprint Badlands Unlimited. Drawing is an important facet of Chan's practice, whether in charcoal drawings like this, or in the drawings he uses for projections and animations. The Beginning of Love, the End of Law VI, 2006, belongs to a series of drawings inspired by old master paintings or movies, most of them depicting Judas kissing Jesus.