Roman Charity
2025
HD video, 19’27’’
This film is a feminist interpretation of Rubens’s “Roman Charity” that is on view at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg using psychoanalytical approach. The image of a daughter breastfeeding her father evokes memories the artist’s childhood, her mother’s arrest, and ambivalent affects of filial devotion and incest. These intimate references intersect with broader power relations, implicating both Russian state authority and the canon of international art history.
languages: English, Russian
with English subtitles
Main participants of the production
Scene Reconstruction of the Painting:
Female model — Yulia Yankova; Male model — Artiem Aksharumov; Camera — Andrei Kachalian; Photographer — Polina Rukavichkina; Sound assistant — Sasha Puchkova.
Scene in the State Hermitage Museum: Camera — Maria Grabareva; Preparation help — Yanina Motolyanets, Elizaveta Andreeva.
Scene in Chelyabinsk: Interview with my father Evgeniy Tereshko
Help: Montage adviser — Taisiya Krugovykh; Proofreading — Siew Ang, Dash Che Psychoanalyst consultations — Elena Kostyleva
Help with sound — Barthélemy Perez
Country of production — Finland
Countries of filming — Russia, Belgium
The work was shown at Kuvan Kevät, Master's Degree Show (Uniarts, Helsinki) in 2025 and won the Johanna Ehrnrooth Prize (2025).
2025
HD video, 19’27’’
This film is a feminist interpretation of Rubens’s “Roman Charity” that is on view at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg using psychoanalytical approach. The image of a daughter breastfeeding her father evokes memories the artist’s childhood, her mother’s arrest, and ambivalent affects of filial devotion and incest. These intimate references intersect with broader power relations, implicating both Russian state authority and the canon of international art history.
languages: English, Russian
with English subtitles
Main participants of the production
Scene Reconstruction of the Painting:
Female model — Yulia Yankova; Male model — Artiem Aksharumov; Camera — Andrei Kachalian; Photographer — Polina Rukavichkina; Sound assistant — Sasha Puchkova.
Scene in the State Hermitage Museum: Camera — Maria Grabareva; Preparation help — Yanina Motolyanets, Elizaveta Andreeva.
Scene in Chelyabinsk: Interview with my father Evgeniy Tereshko
Help: Montage adviser — Taisiya Krugovykh; Proofreading — Siew Ang, Dash Che Psychoanalyst consultations — Elena Kostyleva
Help with sound — Barthélemy Perez
Country of production — Finland
Countries of filming — Russia, Belgium
The work was shown at Kuvan Kevät, Master's Degree Show (Uniarts, Helsinki) in 2025 and won the Johanna Ehrnrooth Prize (2025).
