Opening: Putin’s Ashes, an exhibition by Pussy Riot and Nadya Tolokonnikova

Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova exhibition opens at CONTAINER June 30! Join us at CONTAINER Turner Carroll, 1226 Flagman Way, Santa Fe, 5-7 pm for an installation and performance by Nadya!

Pussy Riot’s Putin’s Ashes was initiated in August 2022, when Pussy Riot burned a 10-x-10-foot portrait of the Russian president, performed rituals, and cast spells aimed to chase Putin away. Twelve women participated in the performance. In order to join, women were required to experience acute hatred and resentment toward the Russian president. Most of the participants were either Ukrainian, Belarusian, or Russian. Nadya Tolokonnikova bottled the ashes of the burnt portrait and incorporated them into her objects that are being presented alongside her short art film Putin’s Ashes, directed, edited, and scored by Tolokonnikova and John Caldwell.