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Humours
Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Click to Read Poetry by Zofia Burr Lead sheathed wooden floor and wall panels create a semi-enclosed chamber within the gallery. At the center, four glycerin cast chairs face each other in an intimate group, as a family around an invisible table. Embedded in the translucent glycerin of each chair, lead cast letters spell out the names of the four humors: yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm. The chairs, as both civilized and natural body, carry the poison of their own demise; as memento mori, they offer a fragile resting-place. Over the course of the exhibition in the warmth of the gallery, the chairs one by one bend, sag and finally collapse, animating the space with the energy of their disintegration. Embossed in the lead skin of the wall panels, the poetry of collaborator Zofia Burr extends the conversation between chairs, chamber, and audience to a consideration of the life of the lead itself, and what is not absorbed by death.
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