At the heart of Marta Roberti’s work lies a stark ecofeminist perspective. She deconstructs Western binary thinking, bringing attention to what has historically been othered and exoticised: women, animals, and nature. In her drawings, Roberti explores the relationship between East and West, reworking myths and their representations. Through alternative figurations and narratives, she challenges how culture mediates our perception of ourselves, exposing the chasm between experience and representation. Roberti’s drawings depict various incarnations of Goddesses across Mediterranean, Asian and Central American cultures. She studies goddess iconography and the animals they are associated with, and performatively embodies the latter’s body language, arriving at a restructured visual language, which is characterised by the harmonious human and non-human animal coexistence. Roberti highlights identity as a constant process of transformation and metamorphosis, suggesting a need to go beyond the self to meet the other. The human body is present in all of her work and occurs in the form of self-portraiture, where it exists in harmony with nature and non-human animals. Through hybridised forms, where human and animal bodies merge, Roberti creates images of care, tenderness, and reciprocity.