Drawings by Khabarovsk artist and former political prisoner in a performance by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Pussy Riot founder Nadezhda Tolokonnikova staged the performance "Police State" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. On June 5, she installed a replica of the cell from Correctional Colony No. 14 in Mordovia, where she served her sentence in 2013.
Drawings by political prisoners were hung on the walls of the cell. Among them were works Pavel Krisevich, Oleg Navalny, Egor Balazeikin, Sasha Skochilenko, Danila Chertykov, Andrey Boyarshinov, Anna Arkhipova, Sergei Bryukhanov, Artem Kamardin, Jan Katelevski, Maxim Smolnikov and others.
Maxim Smolnikov from Khabarovsk, known by the pseudonym Xadad, told NeMoskva that he drew the picture in a pretrial detention center. He was convicted of "incitement to terrorism" for his post about the bombing of the FSB building in Arkhangelsk.
"T-shirts featuring this design were released, and proceeds from their sales went to my support. I wore the same T-shirt while in pretrial detention and gave a few more to other inmates at their request," Smolnikov said.
Smolnikov was fined 300 rubles and banned from publishing online for two years. Yesterday, he received a certificate confirming the punishment. served.
How to пишет Glasnaya, due to protests in the city against Trump's immigration policies and the deployment of National Guard troops, the building was closed, but Tolokonnikova remained inside. Viewers could watch her through a broadcast on screens and through openings in the walls.
"'Police State' has been shut down by a police state. Every event I've held in Russia has been disrupted by the police. Now I feel like I'm back in Russia," Tolokonnikova commented on the closure.
Later performance in Los Angeles continued"Police State" is on view until Saturday, Tolokonnikova announced on her Instagram.
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