April 25, 2025

At Tornado King, Sonia Gomes’s Enchanting Sculptures Take an Air

Although she has never actually run before the outside part of the payment, Gomez is not a whole new point in incorporating nature directly into the approach. “Her connection to the land really attracted this specific task,” said Ossei-Mensah. For example, wood uses structures that are almost like canvas, she attracts and stitches.

In fact, she has long been surprised by the proportions in nature (i.e., the Fibonacci series). That’s how she chose various necklaces in the Tornado Kings installment, and in the room at the Pinacotica Gallery in St. Paul, I was lucky enough to see an impressive installment in 2023.

Make her work and life really fit and can pass by – Gomez. “You can’t see anything different from the atmosphere here, different from the trees, environmentally friendly and the sky,” Lawrence said.

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Sonia Gomes, Untitled from Raiz Collection, 2017. Musician and Mendes Timber DM, Sao Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York City.

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Sonia Gomes, Untitled, 2017. Musician and Mendes Timber DM, Sao Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York City.

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Born in Caetanopolis in 1948, Sonia Gomes is a former fabric center for Minas Gerais in Brazil, and is a black mom and white dad. After her mother died at the age of 3, she was sent to Birchen to be promoted by her father’s family, but she said she was robbed of her own sensation and connections to African descent. In this case, her early initiatives in clothing self-expression have a deeper definition: they are lifelines, a means of discovering themselves.

She went to the Supervisory Academy, which was a wise choice, driven by the people around her, but she never quit. When she stayed in her 40s, she was troubled by double movements. She immediately stopped her rules and took classes at the Guignard Academy of Arts in Belo Horizonte. “There was there, I found freedom for the first time. I might do whatever I wanted.” Below, she was able to call herself a musician, which she used to think was just for someone who might attract.

Although she relies on her own imagination, the artistic planet bordering Gomez did not immediately share that confidence. Providing her tools and in conjunction with her identity as a black lady, her work is often referred to as a craft. Still, her willpower – “I haven’t had the name yet, both art and craft. I’ve actually been doing it” – in the mid-1990s and early 2000s she began organizing smaller gallery efficiency at Minas Gerais. In 2012, she conducted her first solo program with Mendes Timber DM, St. Paul’s Gallery and Global Station.

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