WHERE ART INSPIRES CONNECTION
Worlds Apart
featuring work by
Lis Costa
Vero Reato
May 16 - July 26, 2026
TINT is pleased to announce Worlds Apart, featuring new works by Lis Costa and Vero Reato. This marks both artists’ second time exhibiting at TINT. In their new works, nature once again takes center stage, with a new emphasis on micro/macro elements appearing together within individual works. Though their materials, paper and concrete, may seem worlds apart, both artists’ study of nature moves between terrestrial and aquatic worlds, seamlessly shifting in scale. What appears microscopic opens into the vast, and what feels cosmic contracts into intimate detail.
Exhibition Catalogue
Vero Reato, Plisado M, 2023
Concrete, metal oxide patina, glass beads
35” x 35”
Lis Costa, Vitória Régia ll, 2026
Hand sculpted paper with watercolor
33.5” x 33.5” Framed
Taking inspiration from her native Brazil, Lis Costa delves deeper into her exploration of color in her new body of work. From vibrant greens to bright pink varietals, to densely packed blues, Costa brings the Amazon to life. Her works draw inspiration from flowers to canyons, from rivers to coral. Land and water converge in her piece “Amazonia”: a forest of trees with a fluid river running through it.
Costa’s piece “Vitoria Regia II” exemplifies the micro and macro coexisting within a single work. The Vitoria Regia is a massive Amazonian water lily known for its giant floating leaves and night-blooming, color-changing flowers. Costa’s composition suggests both close observation and vast distance: petals seen under magnification, then expanding outward into planetary fields. Costa’s works flow like water, bloom in color, and capture the heart of the Amazon.
Vero Reato, Coeur de Méduse, 2025
Concrete, glass microbeads, phosphorescent glass
Vero Reato similarly moves between land and aquatic worlds; her works evoke coral, sea urchins, flowers, pollen, life on a cellular level. In her new series, Coeur de Méduse, Reato presents modular works, designed to be arranged in any configuration. At the center of each piece sits a luminous glass bead. While the concrete flowers feel very much grounded in land, the phosphorescent glass center recalls marine life, combining the two realms in one piece.
Reato’s works also shift between the macro and micro. Her Plisado pieces feel like looking at a cell one minute, and the next, an entire organic ecosystem. These two are worlds apart, appearing in the same work.
Across both practices, scale becomes fluid. Though materially distinct, Costa and Reato’s works meet in this oscillation—where nature is not represented as a fixed subject, but experienced as something alive, continually shifting between inner and outer worlds.
Vero Reato, Black Konkrecio, 2025
Concrete, metal oxide patina, 24K gold-plated pewter
41” x 18” x 6.3”
About the Artists
Lis Costa grew up in Goiânia, Brazil. She studied plastic arts at Federal University of Goiás (UFG), followed by a degree in architecture at UCG University. Costa worked as an architect and interior designer for many years before turning her focus back to fine art. In 1991, Costa moved to Bologna, Italy, where she decided to pursue an artistic career full time. She missed working with her hands and creating physical works.
Costa’s journey into paper carving emerged from a desire to recreate different designs by exploring both organic and abstract shapes. Through experimentation, she found her unique style of sculpting paper. Costa’s process begins with sheets of thick white paper made of 100% cotton. Using different sized scalpels, Costa makes light, clean, shallow incisions. These cuts animate the paper, turning the pure white sheet into a complex pattern of shadows and light that give three-dimensionality to her works.
Vero Reato lives and works in Metz, France. She studied product design at the Beaux-Arts de Nancy, followed by a degree in computer graphics at the CNBDI in Angoulême. She has worked in several media, including: video, computer graphics, illustration, murals, and fresco restoration. In 2013, her desire to reconnect with object design and create outdoor artwork led her to a material that has become revolutionary in the construction field: Ultra High Performance Fiber Concrete (UHPC). UHPC is a flexible material that is suited to indoor and outdoor spaces – an unusually perfect material for Reato to experiment with. Inspired by the organic, mineral, and plant realms, Reato explores and interprets forms from nature as contemporary living design, seamlessly blending mineral and organic elements.
Les éditions Ateliers d'Art de France published the first monograph on Reato, “Vero Reato, Sculpter Le Vivant” in 2023.