Pushkin House Podcast

Exhibition Guide: Mother Tongue


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An audio guide to the 'Mother Tongue’ exhibition by Yevgeniy Fiks. Borimir Totev follows New York-based Russian artist Yevgeniy Fiks, as he explores the historical gay Russian argot. This coded language dates back to Soviet times. We reclaim and celebrate Soviet-era Russian gay argot as a unique cultural phenomenon and give a historical context to today’s post-Soviet LGBT+ community, whose language partially evolved from it.
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