PUSSY RIOT BRINGS PUTIN'S ASHES TO JEFFREY DEITCH GALLERY IN LOS ANGELES

 

PUSSY RIOT BRINGS PUTIN'S ASHES TO JEFFREY DEITCH GALLERY IN LOS ANGELES

Pussy Riot brings its radical performance art to Jeffrey Deitch's gallery and invites everyone to join their protest against the authoritarian leader of Russia who started the biggest war in Europe since World War II. For the first time, Pussy Riot are showing their political performance art at a gallery solo in Los Angeles on January 27th.

Created in response to Putin's war in Ukraine, Putin's Ashes was initiated in August 2022, when Pussy Riot burned a 10 x 10-foot portrait of the Russian president, performed rituals, and cast spells aimed to chase Putin away. Twelve women participated in the performance. In order to join, women were required to experience acute hatred and resentment toward the Russian president. Most of the participants were either Ukrainian, Belarusian, or Russian. 

Pussy Riot's founding member Nadya Tolokonnikova bottled the ashes of the burnt portrait and incorporated them into her objects that are being presented alongside her short art film Putin's Ashes, directed, edited, and scored by Tolokonnikova. 

"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" says Tolokonnikova. 

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