DARIA MAKAROVA         







REQUIEM:
LITHIUM BANK


Prison castle, Borovsk, Russia

2021
Soviet period chair from the 'Krasny Oktyabr' cloth factory, mattress fabric, rust, steel, pleated tubes, fragment of a car engine, construction adhesive, timer, human hair, looped sound 12'05"

 











everything breathes ashes of the past

no use in saying that the split lies as it should
should not

so much power is spent on thoughts
on physical suff

ering
as it is used to be
sailing from one bank to another
wishing to bring banks together, to composite

but

the forces of inhuman nature are present
persistent towards man's whims



so

what is left is to test the spiritual cultivation of oneself
to test limits of turbulent physique
what is left is to wear the boots out till the bones
bringing the banks together
as they used to stitch countries up with corpses

layered meat pie
with a prune and redberry confiture
who would kindly light a candle
who would worry about a shame

same mechanism
same system
terms differ
the smell of knees fermented by the waiting for a ferriage
another cycle

no

eternal loop
no rejuvenation
and was not
as well as candles

the shame contradicts the ashes