Gel transfer, graphite, paint, mixed media on canvas; monumental scroll format
In Cheburashka Vomits the West, Marina Orlova reconfigures a beloved Soviet cartoon character into a grotesque conduit of cultural regurgitation. Once an emblem of childhood innocence and socialist imagination, Cheburashka becomes here a creature in crisis — a body rejecting what it has been force-fed.
Painted with acid greens, tangled black loops, and fragments of printed faces, the composition stages a psychic purge. The vomit is not simply bile but the residue of two systems colliding: the collective myths of communism and the seductive poison of Western capitalism. The doll eyes return, haunted and multiplied, observing the spectacle of a culture digesting itself.
The graffiti-like red script — frantic, childlike, performative — marks a rupture between innocence and indoctrination. Through violent humor, the work continues Orlova’s dismantling of mass-produced icons and self-images, exposing the digestive tract of ideology itself.


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