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A textile wall hanging made of white fabric panels, adorned with colorful circular patterns, beads, and dangling strings, displayed against a plain white background.
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Wild Heart

SONIA GOMES
from 10/21/2026 to 02/14/2027

Through her quasi-organic sculptures, Sonia Gomes transforms textiles, engaging with her materials as vehicles of memory and history. She draws on her Afro-Brazilian heritage to weave together sensory narratives at once intimate and collective.

A contemporary art gallery with white walls, a red accent wall, and various colorful sculptural installations made of textiles and ropes displayed on the floor and walls.
Sonia Gomes, view of the exhibition "Torcer, amarrar e pender", Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbonne), 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York). Photo credit: Bruno Lopes

Sonia Gomes’s practice is rooted in her Afro-Brazilian heritage and in her transformation of used textiles into quasi-organic sculptures. Drawing on stories and rituals passed down through generations, her work turns textile into a language of care, memory, and resistance. Moving between art and craft, she explores the links between individual and collective histories, drawing out the emotional weight of objects. At the Palais de Tokyo, she presents a selection of works from the last twenty years of her practice, in dialogue with the architecture of the space.

A vertical sculptural installation made of knotted and bundled fabric forms, some round and some elongated, suspended from the ceiling and trailing across the floor in a white gallery space.
Sonia Gomes, Perto do Coração Selvagem (Trouxa series), 2025, stitching, bindings, fabrics, ropes, beads and laces. Courtesy of the artist and Pace (New York, Los Angeles, London, Geneva, Berlin, Seoul, Tokyo). Photo credit: Damian Griffiths
An abstract sculpture made of intertwined and wrapped fabric-covered cords in various colors and patterns, mounted against a white background.
Sonia Gomes, Torção (Torção series), 2004, fabrics and wires. Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York). Photo credit: Edouard Fraipont
A colorful, abstract soft sculpture made of various patterned and textured fabrics is placed on a smooth, light gray floor against a plain white background.
Sonia Gomes, Perto do Coração Selvagem (Trouxa series), 2025, stitching, bindings, fabrics, ropes, beads and laces. Courtesy of the artist and Pace (New York, Los Angeles, London, Geneva, Berlin, Seoul, Tokyo). Photo credit: Damian Griffiths

FROM 10/21/2026 TO 02/14/2027

Curator : Daria de Beauvais, assisted by Octavienne Denancy and Inès Fodil