Putin's Ashes Total Installation in [CONTAINER] Santa Fe, New Mexico / Tolokonnikova x Pussy Riot

"THIS ART IS A HAMMER THAT SHAPES REALITY": PUSSY RIOT’S CREATOR NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA PRESENTS PUTIN’S ASHES AND NEW POLITICAL FINE ART SERIES AT CONTAINER SANTA FE

On June 30, 2023, Nadya Tolokonnikova takes over CONTAINER to create a once-in-a-lifetime 5,000 sq. ft. immersive art exhibition, turning it into an activist playground for the international premiere of her conceptual artworks, prison artifacts, as well as the New Mexico premiere of her first short film and original musical score, Putin’s Ashes. New works include "Death By 1000 Cuts" (100 conceptual art pieces), "This Art is a Hammer That Shapes Reality" (23 conceptual art pieces), "Drink My Blood" (sculptural collage based on an original copy of Tolokonnikova's freedom certificate), "Kill The Sexist!" and "Virgin Mary, Please Become a Feminist" (prints).
"Putin's Ashes" short art film was born in August 2022 when Pussy Riot burned a giant portrait of Putin and then collected the ashes into vials to incorporate in ritualistic artworks. The performance landed Tolokonnikova on Putin’s Most Wanted list, and instigated an arrest warrant under the Russian "Pussy Riot Law." Undeterred, Tolokonnikova bravely creates artwork as a way to turn tyranny against itself.
Nadya will for the first time be exhibiting her prison artifacts, including her prison paperwork and "Drink My Blood" sculptural collage (2021, mixed media: Tolokonnikova's freedom certificate, needles, blood, stuffed animals) and "Death by 1000 Cuts" (2023) series - framed prison shivs she fashioned out of found materials–including prison bars–which were ground to resemble those ground against the cement of the Russian penal colony in which she was imprisoned for “hooliganism.” Conceptual art series "This Art is a Hammer That Shapes Reality", an homage to Bertold Brecht, will be exhibited for the first time ever, at CONTAINER.

Footage by Riley Bray
Edited by Nadya Tolokonnikova
Production of the installation: 909 System & Val Zabaluyev

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