Exhibition Guide: Mother Tongue

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.

This podcast episode was edited and produced for Pushkin House by Borimir Totev. Listen here on the Pushkin House website, on Apple podcasts, or via Acast.