The construction of the female identity in the painting of Madeline von Foerster

This article deals with the peculiar work of a current woman, from a traditional painting technique, elegant, figurative, and fantastic, manages to transform the symbols of the collective imaginary, to tell visually, in a surreal and critical way, today’s society made their concerns and discomforts ever more distant from nature. Using a pictorial language that historically has built the feminine as an object desired, feared or adored, Madeline von Foerster reconstructs it from its subjectivity, making her heroine in defence of nature.