ABOUT ARTISTS : Sonia Gomes

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Sonia Gomes weaves her work over the duration of time. The artist chooses materials that bring with them colors, textures, trims, and an indefinable set of memories. Each fabric, article of clothing, and accessory she uses has traveled its path and was dressed, stored, and altered before undergoing a final transformation in her studio.   By combining actions such as brushing, twisting, stretching, tensioning, suspending, and wrapping, Gomes turns sewing into a kind of drawing. Her gestures produce traces and set stages of fabric handling, linking, balancing, and associating pieces in a body that, as if growing, takes shape, establishing relationships with the surrounding space.   Gomes, born in Caetanópolis in the interior of Minas Gerais, developed her relationship with art out of a constant need to produce a wide range of textile creations despite lacking access to a circulation channel for her work. The ambition to recreate the world around her through gestures of care, starting with the intimacy of the body, clothing, and home, inscribed her practice within contemporary art. Sonia Gomes (b. 1948, Caetanópolis, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo.

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