Diana Burkot Pussy Riot “SWEAT and BLOOD” by Diana Burkot „SWEAT and BLOOD“

25. – 27.04.25
Núllið Gallerý, Bankastræti


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Diana Burkot

Diana Burkot
MMus í Sköpun, miðlun og frumkvöðlastarf.

especting my roots, did not choose where was born, 

but I self-identify as a citizen of the world.

Interdisciplinary Intersectional artist, musician, and activist:

– Music producer, composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist (electronic music, drums, vocals, synthesizer), DJ

– Contemporary artist, performer, video artist and editor, AI visuals

– Independent activist focused on human rights, feminism, and LGBTQ+ rights / Pussy Riot member since 2011

Education:

1. BA: Advertising and PR, Moscow University 

2. BA: Jazz Percussion / drums, Moscow College of Improvised Jazz 

3. MA: Video Art & Multimedia, Rodchenko Moscow School of Contemporary Art

Pussy Riot “SWEAT and BLOOD”

I am a refugee.
I am a weapon.

A space bathed in cold, sterile light. 

The brightness is not warm—it is clinical, indifferent, too precise. 

The air is still, almost expectant, as if something has already happened here, leaving only its echo. The walls enclose the scene just enough to create a sense of containment, of something held within.

At the center, a sculpture stands, subtle in its brutality as a rock form but no, yet resisting complete definition. 

Its form is deliberate, restrained, not aggressively angular, nor entirely smooth. It carries the weight of something shaped by time rather than force. 

And then the anomaly.

Not far, yet unmistakably separate, a bloody sticky liquid presence lingers. 

A deep stain of something foreign, something wrong. 

It is raw, intrusive, and untethered. 

A silent conflict.