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Artists›Sonia Gomes

Sonia Gomes

1948

Caetanópolis, Brazil

InstallationContemporary

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Sonia Gomes assembles found objects and textiles into knotted, wiry sculptural forms that occupy the space between fiber art and installation. Working in São Paulo, she twists, stretches, and bundles discarded or abandoned materials into dense, tactile compositions that reference both domestic craft traditions and the accumulated residue of urban life. Her practice treats humble materials as carriers of memory and labor.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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Artworks (2)

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Um poema desenhado (A Drawn Poem)

2024 · Artist's book with 34 offset printed and screen printed pages (17 leaves) on paper and translucent vellum, some with additions in thread, fabric, lace, yarn, and cut-and-stapled printed papers; coptic binding with hardcover boards covered in printed Brazilian cloth; plus 2 inserts in the back pocket: a print with thread additions and an offset printed booklet of texts

book, closed: 16 11/16 × 12 13/16 × 7/8" (42.4 × 32.6 × 2.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Memory

2004 · Textile, plastic, glass, ceramic, and metal

58 1/8" × 8' 10 1/4" (147.6 × 270 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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