I’ve spent all my life washing dishes
And composing poems most sublime
And this has lent me all of my life’s wisdom
And made my temperament film and mild
I watch the water flow and comprehend it
Below my window – the people and the powers
Whatever I don’t like I simply overrule it
And what I like is all surrounding me.
– Dmitri Prigov from ‘Housekeeping (197501986)’, in Dmitri ALexandrovich Prigov: Soviet Texts (Ugly Duckling Presse: Brooklyn, 2020), p. 63.
Images:
Dmitri Prigov “Appeals to the Citizens” (1985–87) at documenta 14
Selection of 143 poems in four languages, English translation by Elizaveta Butakova-Kilgarriff
D. A. Prigov Foundation Press and Information Center (former Leder Meid store), Kassel
Apostolos Georgiou Untitled (2012-2016) Acrylic on canvas at documenta 14
220 × 220 cm All works Leder Meid Apartment, Kassel