After several weeks spent in forced psychiatric detention, Pyotr Pavlensky is back in pre-trial detention. The performance artist faces charges of vandalism after setting the door to the FSB’s Moscow headquarters alight in November 2015. A public challenge to Russia’s security services, this action, which Pavlensky titled “Threat”, soon went viral, and raised questions about the regulation of society and the limits of political art — what’s acceptable and what isn’t.
