Sonia Gomes Brings Afro-Brazilian Textile Sculptures to Palais de Tokyo Survey

Sonia Gomes treats textiles as carriers of memory and history, reshaping them into sculptures that read as quasi-organic forms. Her Afro-Brazilian heritage underpins narratives that move between the intimate and the collective. The Paris survey gathers sculptures, paintings and installations in which found or gifted fabrics, rope, embroidery, fragments of wood and other recycled objects are knotted, plaited, assembled or embroidered. These materials retain traces of earlier lives and function as vehicles of sensory memory. Displayed suspended, mounted on walls or set on the floor, the pieces evoke living organisms whose shapes appear to unfurl through space, telling stories of transmission and transformation. The presentation is conceived as a sensory journey in which the intimate, the collective and the sacred intertwine. Palais de Tokyo hosts the exhibition.