This exhibition offers a sensory journey through the universe of Sonia Gomes, where the intimate, the collective and the sacred are woven together. Through found or gifted textiles as well as rope, embroidery, fragments of wood or other recycled objects, she composes sculptures, paintings and installations which unfold into space stories of transmission and transformation.

Knotted, plaited, assembled or embroidered, the materials bear the traces of their past lives and become vectors of sensory memory. Suspended, hung on the wall or placed on the floor, these works resemble living organisms whose forms seem to unfold and metamorphose as they encounter other materials, textures and colours. Each assemblage gives form to shared histories and reveals the invisible links that unite beings across the ages.

By reactivating skills and practices from Afro-descendant traditions, Sonia Gomes confers a dimension of symbolic reparation upon her work. At the intersection of the personal and the political, her œuvre questions the heritage of colonisation, dynamics of race and gender, and mechanisms of cultural transmission. The colour red recurs across her formal vocabulary and is similarly threaded through this exhibition, making matter into a language and each work into a space where resistance and reinvention can come together.