The fight against Putin’s regime will never end: Nadya Tolokonnikova (34), founder of the punk band Pussy Riot, exhibits at OK in Linz. She herself is considered a criminal in Russia, but her art is uncompromising, oppressive, radical and magnificent.
In February 2012 – long before the war in Ukraine – images went around the world denouncing Vladimir Putin’s Russia: activists from the punk band Pussy Riot performed the socially critical action ‘Punk Prayer’ in a church in Moscow, including a general settlement with Putin.
As a result, members of the band ended up in a prison camp, convicted of ‘hooliganism out of religious hatred’. Nadya Tolokonnikova also spent two years in prison in Siberia.
Look through bars
Your cell bed can now also be tested in the operating room. The view through the bars is focused on a video wall that plays Pussy Riot protests on a loop. This is just a small part of the impressive exhibition “Rage/Wut” (until October 20). For the first time, the young artist von Tolokonnikova shows her videos, images and installations in the museum.
In memory of a well-known Kremlin critic
In the video ‘Putin’s Ashes’, women from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus wear the typical Pussy Riot masks and burn Putin’s image. Portraits of anonymous Pussy Riot members are surrounded by a halo full of protest messages, and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is also commemorated.
Sex dolls offer resistance
“My work can also be seen in Russia via social media,” says Tolokonnikova in the ‘Krone’ lecture. “There is hope for change.” In the eyes of the Russian government, she is a criminal and her whereabouts abroad are secret. In the chapel in front of the OR there is another provocative installation: sex dolls in Pussy Riot style as symbols of feminist resistance.
Source: Krone
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