Description
Russian premiere
Building on my background in academic drawing, I create a painting that reinterprets Rubens’ Roman Charity from the viewpoint of its female figure. This painting then appears as a prop in the video, becoming a means to inscribe my own biography and to explore questions of gaze, female subjectivity, memory, and the boundaries of the permissible.
— Alena Tereshko
About the director:

Alena Tereshko
Artist and filmmaker. In her practice, she works with autobiography and humour, blending personal stories with social critique. In 2026 she completed an MFA in Time and Space at Uniarts Helsinki; in 2013 she graduated in monumental art from the St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, and completed the Young Artist School programme at the Pro Arte Foundation.
