Artist: Gaëlle Leenhardt
Exhibition title: Glorious Ruins
Venue: Kvaka22, Belgrade, Serbia
Date: June 24 – July 16, 2017
Photography: Dusan Rajic, all images copyrights and courtesy of the artist and Kvaka22, Belgrade
GLORIOUS RUINS
IN THE ABYSS
OF ACROPOLIS
I ONCE TOOK A PISS
IT WASN’T A BLISS
PEEING IN THE RUINS
THE STATUES WERE STARING
NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT I WAS DOING
THEY WANTED TO CALL THE KEEPER
BUT FORGOT THEY CAN”T TALK
MADE OUT OF STONES
THEY COULD JUST WATCH
AND BE OFFENDED
IN THE ABYSS
OF ACROPOLIS
I ONCE TOOK A PISS
THOSE STATUES
STUCK THERE FOREVER
OF COURSE UNCOVER
SEEING
THEIR HOME FALLING APPART
NO TEARS TO CRY
THEY STILL CAN’T DIE
JUST THE WITNESSES
OF THE TIME GOING ON
IN THE ABYSS
OF ACROPOLIS
I ONCE TOOK A PISS
BUT AS CHRIS MARKER SAID
“STATUES ALSO DIE”
TOO BAD FOR THEM
NO ONE AGREED TO LET THEM
FOREVER STANDING THERE
THEY CAN’T GO ANYWHERE
