Lara Marino is a graduate of ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne. Working primarily with painting and drawing, she explores the relationship between the female body and its environment, approached as a site of tension between control, constraint, and disintegration. Her work examines how social and affective structures produce these images and maintain them under pressure.

The notion of hunger runs through this research as an active principle acting upon the body as much as upon its image, understood as appetite, desire, lack, and a form of social regulation.

Through oil painting, sometimes combined with organic materials such as blood, the image is built up, as much as it comes undone. Oil establishes a slow and dense temporality, while blood introduces instability within the surface, engaging painting as a process of material erosion that directly affects the image of the body.

The figures that emerge are diffracted bodies held in intermediate states, appearing through accumulations, removals, or altered zones.

Her practice operates within an ecofeminist perspective that considers body and environment as interdependent systems and surfaces of control and destruction.