This series of photographs was taken by Senatore in an underground nightclub on Hope Street that has long been a safe space for Cape Town’s LGBTI community. Wearing their signature knitted masks, the Pussy Riot activists climbed onto the stage and danced expressing solidarity with Russian musicians being targeted by the Federal Security Service (FSB).
The people that appear in the pictures by Marinella are members of the Pussy Riot performing in Johannesburg (South Africa).
Senatore invited Pussy Riot to join her on a trip to Johannesburg to address the lack of safety of LGTBIQ+ communities, and the surge of night clubs to assume the role of "new churches". South Africa and Russia (Pussy Riot's motherland) are characterized by the lack of freedom in the street, and it turned the stage on night clubs into social platforms and meeting places for likeminded people. The photographs focus on Pussy Riot's convulsed actions for the camera, as their limbs synchronized with each other in one politicised body. Although they share some familiarity with the visual documentation of 1970s feminism, the colors are vivid and saturated as in modern social media. Moreover, the aesthetics of the artwork wink at vintage film strips with the black frame hitting the print, and two curtains complete the presentation.