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London, Piccadilly Lights Rendering, Nadya Means Hope by Pussy Riot © CIRCA
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London, Piccadilly Lights, Nadya Means Hope by Pussy Riot, Photo courtesy Daniel Adhami, © CIRCA
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Berlin, Limes, Nadya Means Hope by Pussy Riot, Photo courtesy Juan Camilo Roa, © CIRCA
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$1 by Pussy Riot (Nadya Tolokonnikova) #CIRCAECONOMY print series. Handsigned, £131.20 © CIRCA.
Exhibition
CIRCA 20:23 presents PUSSY RIOT
8 Mar 2023 – 5 Apr 2023
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 20:23 – 20:26
- Thursday
- 20:23 – 20:26
- Friday
- 20:23 – 20:26
- Saturday
- 20:23 – 20:26
- Sunday
- 20:23 – 20:26
- Monday
- 20:23 – 20:26
- Tuesday
- 20:23 – 20:26
Free admission
Address
- Piccadilly Circus
- London
England - W1D 7ET
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The nearest bus stops (14, 139, 176, 19, 38, 453) are located on or around Regent Street, Shaftesbury Avenue and Piccadilly.
- Charing Cross and Piccadilly Circus are the nearest tube and train stations.
CIRCA 20:23 presents 'Nadya Means Hope' by Pussy Riot (Nadya Tolokonnikova), a new commission which aims to spark a global conversation surrounding patriarchy at a time when women’s rights are being challenged all over the world.
About
The Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Arts (CIRCA) presents a new work by renowned women’s rights activist, Pussy Riot (Nadya Tolokonnikova). Launching on International Women’s Day (8 March – 5 April 2023) on London’s Piccadilly Lights and across a global network of digital billboard screens, Nadya Means Hope coincides with an all female-identifying auction which will support sexual and reproductive health and rights organisations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Influenced by the landmark overturning of Roe v. Wade on 24 June 2022 – an historic Supreme Court decision which had granted women the right to an abortion in the United States since 1973 – Tolokonnikova responds to the CIRCA 20:23 manifesto ‘Hope: The Art of Reading What Is Not Yet Written’. With the name Nadya or Nadezhda meaning "hope" in many Slavic languages, the punk icon sparks a global conversation surrounding patriarchy at a time when women’s rights are being challenged all over the world.
Characteristically dressed in a white balaclava, Tolokonnikova stares definitely into the camera before striking a match and lighting the tip of an Eggplant emoji (🍆) candle-sculpture in the video. The new 2.5 minute video work created especially for CIRCA 20:23 arrives 11 years after Nadya was sentenced to two years in prison for performing a punk prayer in protest against the Russian Orthodox Church’s support for Vladimir Putin, and voicing strong feminist lyrics.
#CIRCAECONOMY PRINT SERIES
CIRCA has collaborated with Pussy Riot (Nadya Tolokonnikova) to develop a series of hand-signed prints featuring seven male faces on US paper notes disguised anonymously in balaclavas. A woman has not featured on US paper money in over 100 years since Martha Washington’s portrait was featured on the one silver dollar note in the 1880s and 90s. There are currently seven bills in circulation $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 – all featuring men and each one a symbol of the patriarchy. Each screen-print in the PU$$Y RIOT series will display a different paper note and coloured balaclava. Proceeds will support the #CIRCAECONOMY – a circular model that funds the CIRCA free public art programme and creates life-changing opportunities for the wider creative community.
