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Petr Pavlenskiy perched naked on a wall in Serbski Street, Moscow on Sunday where he got to work.
According to the Austrian Times, Pavlenskiy was apprehended by police who took him to a nearby hospital to treat his injury.
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.”
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.
According to AFP, 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.
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