Roman Charity
Tereshko Alena
In Roman Charity, the artist recreates the famous painting of the same title by Peter Paul Rubens from the perspective of the breastfeeding woman. The video essay weaves together reflections on art history and fragments from Rubens’ life with elements of the artist’s personal history.
Production Year
2026
Duration
00:19:27
Tyyppi
Asiasana
art history, baroque, body, body awareness, charity, childhood, copies, copyists, ethics, family relations, feminism, gaze, human relations, moralities, morals, painting (visual arts), painting from live model, paintings, parent-child relationship, parents, performance (art forms), poetic imagery, prisons, psychoanalysis, recreation, sexual morality, traumas
Original Title
Roman Charity
English Title
Roman Charity
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Alena Tereshko (Author), Andrey Kachalyan (Cinematographer), Maria Grabareva (Cinematographer), Alena Tereshko (Cinematographer), Alena Tereshko (Director), Alena Tereshko (Editor), Taisiya Krugovykh (Editor), Alena Tereshko (Producer), Alena Tereshko (Script), Barthélemy Perez (Sound Design), Yulia Yankova (Actor), Evgeniy Tereshko (Actor), Artiem Aksharumov (Actor), Kuvataideakatemia (Funder)
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Alena Tereshko (b. 1986, Siberia) works with autobiography and humour, blending personal narratives with social critique. Grounded in feminist studies, her performance-based work spans diverse forms of expression, including painting, video and installations. Alena is particularly interested in how contemporary phenomena and tradition (folklore or traditional art) are intertwined in the arts.