Svetà Marlier was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1975 into a family of artists At the age of 8, she entered the Russian capital’s School of Art. After graduating from the École des Beaux-Arts and the École de la Cinématographie in 1998, she decided to move to France In Paris, she studied at the renowned

“Ever since Malevich (1879-1935) and his “degree 0 of painting”, reached at the dawn of the previous century, we know that figuration remains a perilous exercise. From this unexpected assault by a painter whose early figuration had turned into radical abstraction, artists have responded in many ways to rescue figurative art from this premature condemnation.