The work of Marinella Senatore is tied closely to performative art. Performance for Senatore is a way of gathering, resistance, and a political act. With a background in music, cinema, and art, Marinella Senatore takes on the role of a conductor who orchestrates a situation, which becomes a platform for engagement, empowerment, and the emancipation of communities. By her performances, Senatore points to the force of community as an alternative social formation, which can, among others, help us envision new social orders that abolish notions of authority and create a significant shift in our understanding and organization of power structures. Making the concept of procession central to her work and a culmination of her research, Senatore echoes various kinds of political gatherings, may these be workers protests, riots, religious processions, or carnival parades.

Like most of Senatore's works on canvas, also the Time is Now (2017), appropriates an image from the artist's archive of slogans and actual historical documentation of a vast body of protests, which have shaped modern and contemporary history. Echoing the aesthetic of a protest banner, the piece is tied closely with the context of Senatore's performative works. With a young smiling female figure with backpack on her back, at the center of the painting, Senatore explores possibilities of non-verbal communication, while pointing to the politicization of gender and the body through history and its manipulation by ideology. Breaking with the differences and notions of the Other, Senatore enacts a world of togetherness and community, allowing us to articulate new ways of being while challenging the politics of the present.