“Untitled”

Sonia Gomes' work is woven over time. The artist chooses materials that bring their own colors, textures, drapes and an indefinable set of memories. Each fabric, garment and accessory she uses has gone through its own journey, being worn, stored and changed before undergoing a transformation in her studio.
 
Through a combination of actions such as kneading, twisting, stretching, tensioning, suspending and wrapping, Gomes turns sewing into a kind of drawing. His gestures produce lines and, at the same time, fix stages of the handling of fabrics, linking, balancing and associating pieces into a body that, as if growing, gradually takes shape, establishing relationships with the surrounding space.
 
Born in Caetanópolis, in the interior of Minas Gerais, in 1948, Sonia Gomes' relationship with art resulted from a permanent need, which led her to produce a wide range of textile creations without having access to a circulation channel. The inclusion of her work in the field of contemporary art results from the ambition to recreate the world around her through gestures of care, starting with the intimacy of the body, clothing and home.