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Sonia Gomes: Assombrar o mundo com beleza (I Haunt the World with Beauty)

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Sonia Gomes: Assombrar o mundo com beleza (I Haunt the World with Beauty) presents a selection of works produced over the last fifteen years by Minas Gerais-based artist Sonia Gomes. Edited by Paulo Miyada, this monograph is composed of ample artwork illustrations; records of exhibitions, personal drawings, and journal entries; a shrine section featuring the artist’s objects and letters, prepared by researcher Beta Germano; and pictures by Lita Cerqueira of Gomes in her studio. The book also features text in Portuguese and English by 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 Paulo Miyada. 

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Contributors: Leda Maria Martins, Paulo Miyada, Michael Wellen, Sidarta Ribeiro, Yina Jiménez Suriel
Publisher: Cobogó
Publication date: 2025
Hardcover
11 ¾ × 9 ⅛ inches
320 pages; 210 color, 16 bw images
ISBN: 9786556911519

Sonia Gomes: Assombrar o mundo com beleza (I Haunt the World with Beauty)

Sonia Gomes

Sonia Gomes combines secondhand textiles with everyday materials, such as furniture, driftwood, and wire, to create abstract sculptures that reclaim Afro-Brazilian traditions and feminized modes of artmaking from the margins of history.

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