Among the artistic techniques used by Marilena Sutera, painting has always had a very prominent place.

Her classical figurative training, which took place in painting classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, shines through in her pictorial work, through the frequent, almost constant use of oil color and rigorous drawing of the figure in her representations.

The series of female figures on the panel, such as the Caryatids, the Dancers, the Mother Goddesses and the Levitations and Vases series, emerge from a pictorial material made of marks, paper, earth, wood glue and pigments.

Marilena uses cloth dipped in glue, looking for three-dimensionality, combines painting with printing techniques that she knows how to control well, acts on her forms, transforms them, shrinks them and makes them vanish. Figures become symbols, like the trees of life or fragments of matter, that represent her story, the feminine, her aspiration for freedom and the danger of shadows that can overpower our bodies, our beauty and that of the world.