Artists

Sonia Gomes

Press release

Through her quasi-organic sculptures, Sonia Gomes transforms textiles, engaging with her materials as vehicles of memory and history. She draws on her Afro-Brazilian heritage to weave together sensory narratives at once intimate and collective. Sonia Gomes's practice is rooted in her Afro-Brazilian heritage and in her transformation of used textiles into quasi-organic sculptures. Drawing on stories and rituals passed down through generations, her work turns textile into a language of care, memory, and resistance. Moving between art and craft, she explores the links between individual and collective histories, drawing out the emotional weight of objects. At the Palais de Tokyo, she presents a selection of works from the last twenty years of her practice, in dialogue with the architecture of the space.