Hydrophilia: Solo Exhibition of Charlotte Qin

Hydrophilia is an emotional and visual archive spanning five years of work by Charlotte Qin—artist, artivist, and founder of Geneva-based NGO Meeting of Waters. Hydrophilia gathers eighty works from five years of practice: painting, drawing, calligraphy, and sculpture, this exhibition offers a rare cartography of becoming: a woman becoming river, data becoming memory, gesture becoming prayer.

To stand before these works is to feel a tide moving through gesture. The paintings do not illustrate water; they behave like it. They leak. They reflect. They resist containment. In their surfaces, the artist recognises her own: the wound, the womb, the well. Black works trace the earliest contours of permeability. Blues open onto depth and grief: rivers, rains, glaciers, a climate under pressure. Gold gathers as prayer—light held at the surface, a quiet insistence on grace. Read together, these pieces form an inner hydrography: a cartography of becoming where womanhood, form, and faith are inseparable.

Hydrophilia is an archive of that recognition—an invitation to read water as scripture and as skin, to witness form where form dissolves, and to let the eye become the body that remembers. Here, water is the medium, the mirror, the wound, and the healer. Hydrophilia is an open confession of obsession—an offering from one body to another. A reminder that water remembers even when we forget.