Sonia Gomes: Assombrar o mundo com beleza

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Sonia Gomes: Assombrar o mundo com beleza is currently available for pre-order, and is expected to ship in summer 2025.

Sonia Gomes: Assombrar o mundo com beleza (Haunting the World With Beauty) presents a selection of works produced in the last 15 years by Minas Gerais artist Sonia Gomes, one of the foremost names in Brazilian contemporary art. Through fabric work, Gomes's “plastic poetry,” as the artist calls her creation, deals with themes such as identity, memory, and temporality.

Edited by Paulo Miyada, artistic director of the Tomie Ohtake Institute and adjunct curator of the Centre Pompidou, the book is composed of pictures of the works, records of exhibitions, personal drawing and poetry journals, a shrine section—featuring the artist’s objects and letters, prepared by featured researcher Beta Germano—as well as pictures by Lita Cerqueira of Gomes in her workshop. Therefore, the edition includes the artist’s works as well as personal aspects of their production.

The book also features essays written by various authors about the artist and her work, such as writer and poet Leda Maria Matins, neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro, Tate Modern curator Michael Wellen, TBA21-Academy’s The Current IV curator Yina Jiménez Suriel, as well as the book’s own editor and researcher Paulo Miyada.

According to Paulo Miyada, the artist’s output “is a powerful recent contemporary expression of a lineage of Brazilian artists who build on the repetition of minimal gestures with materials of little market value, spending time, transforming substance, delineating shapes, extrapolating scales and reaching a very particular kind of monumentality.”

Hardcover, 320 pages
Cobogó, 2025
ISBN: 978-65-5691-151-9
9 x 11.5 inches