Mary has had enough once and for all.

For two millennia, she had the most thankless and shittiest job in the world. She had to give birth to a child as a virgin and, as if that wasn't bad enough, she had to present the image of the eternally chaste, humble woman to the women of this world. The woman without sex and without her own needs.

 It pisses Mary off.

And has been for a really long time. That's why she now wants to make it clear once and for all that it's all a big, fat lie and that she has been instrumentalized here for two thousand years to keep women down.

For thousands of years, she stood alone, as paintings and sculptures, alone with her child, a single mother, so to speak. Ever since she stood there, she has wanted nothing more than to have women at her side, friends, sisters, mothers, daughters, grandmothers and lovers.

The time is ripe. More than that. It is enough.

Mary was alone for the longest time.

She celebrates all the women who redeem her and free her from her millennia-old burden. Mary celebrates all the women who support her, connect with her and join her in reclaiming their place in the world that has been denied them for so long. Because it can only be done together.

The time is ripe for a new, diverse, sensual and powerful image of women instead of the lonely, chaste, self-sacrificing woman.

 Mary celebrates this.

Because she knows one thing for sure. She is not the second sex. She never was and never will be.

Staging: Georg Leditzky / Sellerie Studio

Photography: Patrick Bauer / Sellerie Studio

Art Direction Video: Floria Launisch

Camera and Edit: Benny Paya

Music: Peter Primer

Location: Museum Krems / Dominikanerkirche