“My paintings stem from my imagination that is nonetheless entrapped in the perplexing images in the caves of Lascaux, the evocative paintings of Cézanne and Giacometti, and the timelessness of Surrealism. The Heroes exhibition of Georg Baselitz I saw in Rome in 2017 had the most powerful impact on me.” These words of Carmen Marin shed light on several groups of partly-figurative paintings executed over the past five years. Confronting the viewer with a tone of mysticism, a given work by Marin is an embodiment of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of a primordial world: a pre-human world that is in a fragmentary, unending and incessant process of entering human perception.