They work with hybrid forms of film, performance and installation and develop projects with docu-fictional, site-specific and collaborative approach, bringing together personal perspectives and heterogeneous voices in a polyphonic manner. Their artistic practice revolves around the articulations of experiences of loss, grief and gender-based violence; queer mourning practices; politics and ethics of visual representation; artistic collaboration; love, care and empathy in the field of politics and activism; social utopias under post-communist condition; self-organised communities and forms of togetherness; and grotesque, celebration and glamour as a form of resistance in marginalised and queer communities.

Theo's practice has been influenced by the local AIDS crisis in their native Russia, experiences of state oppression, and their hybrid identity as a queer migrant of Jewish-Tatar mixed minority background. It explores documentary forms, polyphonic storytelling, and the erotic moving body as affective media of care, delegated mourning, engaged witnessing, and cultural memory from the position of being a lover, caregiver, and survivor.

Theo studied Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts, visual arts and philosophy at Bard College Berlin, film at the Russian national film school in Moscow, and has a background in dance, performance and physical theater. Their projects have been exhibited and screened internationally at community spaces and established institutions alike, in Berlin and throughout Europe.

Besides, they regularly work in political documentary film and have background in social work with refugees, migrants and survivours of violence.