Pyotr Pavlensky shocked visitors in Moscow’s Red Square by hammering a nail through his
scrotum into the floor outside Lenin’s Mausoleum, on the day Russia
marked its Police Day national holiday.
Pavlensky said of it:
‘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.’
