Winner of the scholarship under the project „Artist Residencies“
Duration of residence: March – April, 2023
Creation Work:
communal flat
they turned my building
upside down from cellar to attic
they turned it on its head from top to bottom
they broke down the door of my home and insisted
it was living space assigned
to them starting from now.
in rooms without an address
in a country world maps
don’t remember anymore
the footprints of strangers’ lives
on exhausted steps of staircases
the jangling of the cold latch
on the downstairs door
the faded colour of floorboards
the plywood chairs with worn-out seats
lined up against the wall
in extremely tiny rooms
in a country where an immense history
forced strangers to live in close quarters
until smoke from the stove began blowing in
the stove collapsed, the paint peeled
and no one cared in the least
how I liked to sit there
in the mornings all by myself
in my home
in my kitchen
the smell of freshly-brewed coffee
a vase with a lilac branch
or its shadow
like a memory left without a body.
Poem from the collection „Vivarium” (Vivaarium, 2019)
Translated by Jayde Will
Published in the UK by The Emma Press, 2020
