Big announcement today: my first solo museum exhibit is coming up this June in Linz, Austria.
This art is a weapon. It's an exhibit on resilience, courage, dictatorship, death. It's a reflection on 17 years of me suffocating in abusive relationships with Russia as a political artist.
Being from Russia brings pain. Most of my life, even after 2 years imprisonment following the punk-prayer, I chose to stay in Russia, even though I had plenty of opportunities to immigrate.
I tried to change Russia, make it a country that I would be proud of - peaceful, prosperous, friendly, democratic, loving, a country that values human life, art and happiness.
First with Voina Group, later with Pussy Riot, I've been in performance art since 2007, for 17 long years - years filled with joy of protest and comradery, harassment, arrests. I watched my friends being murdered and revolutions suffocating under Putin’s boot.
The most radical act of rebellion today is to relearn how to dream and to fight for that dream.
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