An artist has cut off part of his right ear with a kitchen knife.
Petr Pavlenskiy perched naked on a wall in Serbski Street, Moscow on Sunday. According to the
Austrian Times, Pavlenskiy was apprehended by police who took him to a nearby hospital to treat his injury. Pavlenskiy is of course the artist who was launched into the limelight after nailing his own testicles to a cobblestone in Red Square.
He carried out the stunt last year to protest what he described in a statement as Russia’s descent into a “police state”.Writing on the
grani.ru website, Pavlensky said:
"A naked artist, looking at his balls nailed to the Kremlin pavement, is a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of contemporary Russian society." The act of self-mutilation took place close to Lenin’s mausoleum in the centre of Moscow’s iconic square.
Writing on the
Of Pavlenskiy's most recent stunt,
The Guardian cites a statement on his wife's Facebook page, saying the severing of his ear it is meant to represent the damage caused of the police
"returning to the use of psychiatry for political goals. It adds: “Armed with psychiatric diagnoses, the bureaucrat in a white lab coat cuts off from society those pieces that prevent him from establishing a monolithic dictate of a single, mandatory norm for everyone.”
According to reports, 29-year-old Pavlenskiy has carried out similar acts in the past, including sewing his lips together in demonstration against the jailing of two members of Pussy Riot, and wrapping his body in barbed wire outside a government building.
Credits: Huffington Post / CEN
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