Pussy Riot Set To Perform 'Putin's Ashes' Live at Deitch Gallery
Permitting entry only with a Balaclava.
Russian and feminist art collective, Pussy Riot, will be hosting its political performance, “Putin’s Ashes,” at an art gallery for the first time.
Debuting at Los Angeles‘ Deitch Gallery on January 27, Pussy Riot invites the city to stand in solidarity against Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, who notoriously instigated the war against Ukraine.
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Led by the collective’s founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, the political performance first debuted in August 2022. The performance portrayed a 10 x 10 portrait of Russia’s president being burned along with “performed rituals, and cast spells aimed to chase Putin away,” shared the exclusive press release. Tolokonnikova then collected the ash remains from the portrait, “and incorporated them into her objects that are being presented alongside her short art film Putin’s Ashes, directed, edited, scored by herself.
In the exclusive press release, she continued: “While working with artifacts, bottling ashes, and manufacturing the faux furry frames for the bottles, I used skills that I learned in the sweatshops of my penal colony. I was forced to sew police and army uniforms in a Russian jail. I turned what I learned in my labor camp against those who locked me up. Putin is a danger to the whole world, and he has to be stopped immediately.”
View the powerful trailer below and visit the solo exhibit on January 27 at the Deitch Gallery.
