Pussy Riot

In penal colonies and in the prisons of authoritarian regimes, drawing, writing, embroidering, collecting images is not a pastime: it is a way of holding on, of staying alive, of not disappearing into the silence that power seeks to impose. The works gathered here were produced by political prisoners – a teenager arrested for an anti-war action, a journalist, an activist, a scientist, a teacher – condemned for their words, their actions, their refusal to remain silent.

Nadya Tolokonnikova, co-founder of Pussy Riot, has herself experienced the penal colony, forced labour and constant surveillance before imagining Police State, an installation that turns the cell into a space of total art and connects her experience to that of other detainees. Presented at MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) and MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago), this work opens up a field that Resistance Imprisoned extends: all the original works in this exhibition were created by political prisoners. Resistance Imprisoned continues, outside major institutions, the work initiated by Nadya Tolokonnikova at MOCA and MCA.

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