Christina Oiticica is featured in L’Art à Genève, which devotes an in-depth review to When the Sky Invades the Earth (Quand le ciel envahit la terre), her exhibition at the Grand Hôtel Majestic in Pallanza–Verbania, on the shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy. Presented by ART for The World for its 30th anniversary and curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg with architect Marcelo Mendonça, the show runs from 13 September to 27 October 2026.

As critic Danniel Tostes writes, the setting itself becomes part of the work: shown just steps from the lake, the paintings remain in constant dialogue with the light, the garden and the water beyond the windows. Rather than representing nature, Christina enters into a relationship with it — earth, water, time, light, minerals and micro-organisms all take part in her process. After painting, she often buries or immerses her works in specific territories and waits; what resurfaces is sometimes very different from what she had imagined.

The clearest example is Mama Muxima: submerged for three months in Lake Maggiore and exposed to its currents, micro-organisms and the storms of August, an originally figurative painting re-emerged close to abstraction. The exhibition also brings together watercolours created for Paulo Coelho’s Histórias para Pais, Filhos e Netos, the butterfly works Enchanted Being I & II made with Pataxó artist Txatxu and buried in Indigenous land in Bahia, and pieces such as The Birth of Venus, The Heart of Bahia and Nanã — each carrying the memory of the territory that shaped it. The lake, as Tostes puts it, becomes a true collaborator in the painting.

Exhibition: When the Sky Invades the Earth — Grand Hôtel Majestic, Pallanza–Verbania, Italy (13 Sept – 27 Oct 2026) · Language: French