About this work
{"type":"root","children":[{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"Published by CIRCA on the occasion of "},{"type":"text","value":"Nadya Means Hope","italic":true},{"type":"text","value":" (2023), "},{"type":"text","value":"PU$$Y RIOT","italic":true},{"type":"text","value":" is a hand-signed series of seven prints by Nadya Tolokonnikova that transforms the iconography of American currency into a provocative statement on gender, power and representation. Each work features one of the seven US banknotes currently in circulation, with the male figure traditionally depicted on the bill concealed beneath Pussy Riot's signature balaclava."}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"A woman has not appeared on US paper currency for more than a century, since Martha Washington's portrait featured on the one-dollar silver certificate in the late nineteenth century. Through a simple yet powerful intervention, Tolokonnikova draws attention to the enduring structures of patriarchy embedded within both political and economic systems. By disguising each male figure anonymously, the series challenges assumptions about authority, visibility and who is permitted to occupy positions of symbolic power."}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"A distinctive nod to "},{"type":"text","value":"Punk Prayer","italic":true},{"type":"text","value":", the work extends Pussy Riot's longstanding commitment to feminist activism and creative resistance. Each print combines a monochrome reproduction of a US banknote with a vividly coloured screen-printed balaclava, while hidden details throughout the artwork reward closer inspection. Tolokonnikova's signature replaces that of the US Secretary of the Treasury, while the customised serial number \"PR03C2023\" references Pussy Riot, March and CIRCA 2023. Simultaneously playful and confrontational, "},{"type":"text","value":"PU$$Y RIOT","italic":true},{"type":"text","value":" transforms one of the most familiar objects of everyday life into a bold act of artistic and political intervention."}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":""}]}]}
Edition details
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Publication information
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Public impact
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