Petr Pavlensky, a Russian protest artist whose work will be the subject Saatchi Gallery’s upcoming exhibition, Art Riot: Post Soviet Actionism next month, has been arrested in France for setting fire to the facade of Banque de France as part of a protest performance.

Images on social media show Pavlensky dressed in black, standing in front of the shuttered front door while fires burn outside the windows.

L'artiste russe Pavlenski arrêté par la police à 4h10 après avoir mis le feu à la Banque de France @afpfr @franceinfo pic.twitter.com/rGhzMMqhFp

— Capucine Henry (@capucinema) October 16, 2017

Pavlensky gained notoriety for anti-Kremlin stunts including nailing his scrotum to the cobblestones of Moscow’s Red Square and sewing his mouth shut in 2012 to support the arrested feminist rock protest group Pussy Riot. France granted Pavlensky and his partner asylum in May, months after Russia fined him for a 2015 arson attack of the Federal Security Service building.

#BanquedeFrance #Pavlenski #Paris pic.twitter.com/4OjTjJ8D1N

— Ren RT France (@LorenzoRTFranc1) October 16, 2017