Nadya Tolokonnikova, Sex Dolls installed as part of "RAGE" exhibition at O.K. Linz in Austria. Photo: Manuel Carreon Lopez
Russian artist Nadya Tolokonnikova, a founding member of the punk feminist collective Pussy Riot, has spoken out after some of her artworks were vandalized at her museum show at O.K. Linz in Austria.
On December 7, vandals smashed the glass door of the chapel of the Holy Virgin, a deconsecrated exhibition space on the grounds of the museum that currently contains the installation Pussy Riot Sex Dolls. Tolokonnikova claims that the attack was an act of Christian “fundamentalist aggression” since it took place on the eve of the Catholic feast day of the Immaculate Conception, a solemn celebration of the Virgin Mary’s purity.
