Victoria Begalskaya (also Vika Begalska) is originally from Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro), Ukraine. She graduated from the Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts, and she now works in Moscow as a painter and film artist. In her films, Begalskaya makes a parody of familiar situations taken from daily life in Russia and Ukraine. Creating mocking, folkloric montages, she provides the viewer with a pitiless perspective on what social reality looks like in the Post-Soviet Era. In 2014, she founded Teresa Creative Union of Sex-Workers and Artists, a joint project in partnership with streetwalkers from Saint Petersburg. Together they developed a puppet theatre using cardboard cut-out figures, paintings and objects, where encounters between sex workers and their clients are staged, given a shape in which the tragedy of the theme always hovers between the moral and the cheerfully debauched.