Title: Holy Playthings

 Holy Playthings is a ritual of unmaking—part exorcism, part funeral, part rebellion.  Set in a forest, the artist constructs her own crucifix from raw wood and nails discarded teddy bears to it, their bodies soaked in black spray paint. The act is not nostalgic—it’s surgical. Brutal. Sacred. Orlova unearths the trauma of post-Soviet girlhood, where toys turned into trade and innocence was drowned.  She repeats the ritual with new meaning: a baptism not into purity, but into power.

 In this raw and unflinching monologue, Marina Orlova breaks her silence—not for the man at the center, but for the daughter she’s raising to break the cycle. A former media figure confronting her past with Harvey Weinstein, Marina unravels the cost of trading voice for visibility, body for approval. This is not a defense. It’s a reckoning. A birthday gift wrapped in truth, shame, and liberation—for the little girl who will never have to learn silence as survival.