The exhibition catalogue focuses on Pussy Riot’s artistic protests in Russia, collected by Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina, and it is curated by Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir, Ragnar Kjartansson and Dorothée Kirch, with John Zeppetelli and Marjolaine Labelle for the presentation at the MAC.

The performances, music, and videos created by the feminist punk art collective Pussy Riot, formed in Moscow in 2011, are characterized by provocative and politically charged lyrics and actions. Guided by the dictum that all protest art should be “desperate, sudden, and joyous,” Pussy Riot has courageously, and with a wry smile, shone a light on the brutal injustices that the Russian state inflicts on its citizens through political imprisonment, arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial executions, mysterious poisonings, aggressive surveillance, and other means of suppressing critical voices.

 

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