"Choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic, sanguine," by Bharti Kher. 2009-10. Bronze.
"Choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic, sanguine," by Bharti Kher
+ Glass, Irony and God
What they have in common: I hope you can see it. Because I think the two have so much in common. All of these multiple women voices, like in Carson's essay "The Gender of Sound." For Kher, the women are bronze and cordoned off, yet all of them stand there multiples of each other. Uniquely feminine. The sculpture even has a backside, where there is a woman being held, like she were fallen, like she were Christ in the Pieta. But she doesn't get to be cradled. She's just held, like a piece of meat, away from the body.
Why they would keep talking on the phone for hours: Because they both have such a concrete grasp on paradox. Carson's "The Glass Essay" is all about freedom, or the cage we think we'll get free of and then finally taste freedom. And Kher's "Choleric, phlegmatic, melancholy, sanguine" has way too many arms to not be conversant with paradox. Serpent arms and arms with hands halfway formed.
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