Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot: “Men are simply easier to boss around”
She reconstructed the prison cell in Berlin where she spent two years. A conversation about Putin, her dream destination Paris, and political correctness.
Her exhibition "Wanted" can be viewed at the Nagel Draxler Gallery for another week. Tolokonnikova, who was born in Siberia, is one of Russia's best-known critics. In the Berlin gallery, she has had the small cell in which she was imprisoned for two years recreated. This was for her 2012 "Punk Prayer" protest, when she danced with other Pussy Riot activists in colorful knitted peaked caps in Moscow's Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood. She was 23 at the time, and her daughter was four. Tolokonnikova went on hunger strike several times. At the beginning of May, she unexpectedly canceled her visit to Berlin; this interview will take place later via Zoom. Tolokonnikova speaks calmly and very deliberately; she lives in exile in an unknown location. At one point, her new dog, called Luna, runs through the picture.
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