« I have never really known what I was painting until it was finished.» — Georgia O’Keeffe

Marina Orrea develops a pictorial practice centered on the human figure, often feminine, and its relationship to the living world.

Through painting, the work explores states of presence, in which body and nature coexist within a shared movement, without hierarchy or imposed narrative.

Forests, natural cycles, and organic forms run through the work as spaces of passage.

They are not approached as landscapes or stories, but as sensitive territories, where the visible and the invisible meet, and where perception slowly shifts.

Relationships take shape through echoes, repetitions, and symmetries, as figures brought into resonance rather than placed face to face.

They do not look at one another: they move through one another.

Painting withdraws like a scent.

It does not impose itself, but is built through sensitive layers that respond and align, leaving a discreet trace before fading away.

Colors act as fleeting impressions, connected to the living, to air, and to light.

Marina Orrea’s work engages an attentive and perceptive way of seeing.

Painting establishes a direct, immediate relationship with matter, without distance.

Time unfolds differently there, through layers, erasures, and returns, in a relationship with the living marked by passages and silent transformations.