Pyur: Lucid Anarchy

On hiding behind the organ and living off-grid in rural France

Pyur, photo: Camille Blake

I am meeting the woman that goes by the artist name Pyur, but whom I will call by her real name Sophie here, in a left-wing activist café in Neukölln, an area of Berlin where I once lived for many years, just a couple of blocks up the street.

Sophie has moved to Neukölln from her native Munich in the mid-2010s. Since then, it’s…