Artwork details

Artist

Nadya Tolokonnikova

Title

Yes Sex Is Great But Have You Ever Fucked The System

Description

Technique: 4-color screenprint on Coventry Rag 320 gsm, hand-cut.

Signature: Signed by the artist, numbered and stamped by our publishing house.

Based on a photograph of Nadya Tolokonnikova and Dainty Wilder, Yes Sex Is Great But Have You Ever Fucked the System pairs a bold silhouette of two figures kissing with one of Nadya’s provocative slogans. Printed over a luminous silver ground created with two layers of metallic ink, the composition juxtaposes intimacy with political dissent, reflecting the artist’s ongoing engagement with feminism, activism, and resistance to institutional authority.

Drawing on the visual language of protest, punk culture, and contemporary activism, Tolokonnikova combines graphic clarity with uncompromising rhetoric to confront systems of control and challenge conventional notions of freedom.

Produced as a 4-color screenprint, the edition exemplifies Tolokonnikova’s distinctive visual language, where bold text, graphic economy, and refined printmaking techniques converge in a powerful act of social commentary.

Date

2026

Medium

Screenprint

Edition

Signature

Signed

Sheet

36 in. x 27.13 in. (91.40 cm x 68.90 cm) cm

Status

Available

Price

Price on request

Nadya Tolokonnikova

Conceptual performance artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova is the creator of Pussy Riot, a global feminist protest art movement. Today, hundreds of people identify as a part of the Pussy Riot community.
In 2012, she was sentenced in 2012 to two years’ imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance. Nadya went through a hunger strike protesting savage prison conditions and ended up being sent far away to a Siberian penal colony. There, she managed to maintain her artistic activity and, with her prison punk band, she made a tour around Siberian labor camps.
In 2018, Nadya published a book Read and Riot: Pussy Riot’s Guide to Activism. She is a co-founder of independent news service and media outlet, Mediazona, co-founder of the art-collecting collective Unicorn DAO, she was instrumental in raising over $7 million for Ukraine, she spoke before the US Congress, British Parliament, European Parliament, appeared as herself on season 3 of House of Cards, and performed at Banksy’s Dismaland exhibition.