Fernanda Gomes Retrospective at Pinacoteca de SP Features 50 Works Spanning Three Decades

Fernanda Gomes has transformed seven climate-controlled rooms at the Pinacoteca do Estado in São Paulo into an experimental space with a series of interventions. The exhibition, running for the past three weeks, simultaneously points to the past and future, summarizing a successful trajectory spanning over three decades while highlighting the persistence and radicalization of an audacious path. It challenges the public's gaze and incites the discovery of improbable relationships between often banal elements. Key characteristics of her production include diminutive scale, exclusive use of white and natural wood colors, reappropriation of discarded elements, a search for geometric configurations, and a permanent tendency toward reduction. The artist resists discursive logic, with neither the exhibition nor individual works having titles, and her work does not submit to the logic of image excess dominating contemporary production. The oldest work dates from 1973, when Gomes was just 12 years old.