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Toxic Mary
2004
Print on Paper

This screen print was part of Turf War, the street artist’s exhibit which took place in East London in 2003.
Here we can see a Virgin Mary with baby Jesus in arms, being fed from a bottle that is labelled toxic. This use of religious iconography to criticize mass consumerism and capitalism is frequent in Banksy's work.
The way in which the stencil seems to drip is not causality but an artistic choice, the drips refers to the agro toxic culture. The invasion of agro toxics in our lives since the very beginning seems to be the main pint on this Banksy art piece.

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