Torcer, amarrar e pender (Twisting, Tying, Hanging)
Kunsthalle Lissabon•May 27, 2025 — Aug 16, 2025
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Kunsthalle Lissabon is pleased to present Torcer, amarrar e pender (Twisting, Tying, Hanging), the first solo exhibition in Portugal by Sonia Gomes, one of the most relevant voices in Brazilian contemporary art. Through a textile-based practice, Gomes reclaims overlooked materials, transforming them into vessels of memory, resistance, and care. Her work is a radical act of reconstructing lives, voices, stories, and traditions through fabric.
The exhibition title, Torcer, amarrar e pender (Twisting, Tying, Hanging), condenses the gestures that traverse Gomes' work, both in material and symbolic terms. These actions refer to how the artist transforms fabrics into organic sculptures and the intertwining of stories, affections, and support networks that sustain her work. In some pieces, twisted ropes support suspended volumes that defy gravity, while fabrics tied in tension create forms that oscillate between shelter and...More
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Torcer, amarrar e pender (Twisting, Tying, Hanging)
Kunsthalle Lissabon•May 27, 2025 — Aug 16, 2025
Press Release
Kunsthalle Lissabon is pleased to present Torcer, amarrar e pender (Twisting, Tying, Hanging), the first solo exhibition in Portugal by Sonia Gomes, one of the most relevant voices in Brazilian contemporary art. Through a textile-based practice, Gomes reclaims overlooked materials, transforming them into vessels of memory, resistance, and care. Her work is a radical act of reconstructing lives, voices, stories, and traditions through fabric.
The exhibition title, Torcer, amarrar e pender (Twisting, Tying, Hanging), condenses the gestures that traverse Gomes' work, both in material and symbolic terms. These actions refer to how the artist transforms fabrics into organic sculptures and the intertwining of stories, affections, and support networks that sustain her work. In some pieces, twisted ropes support suspended volumes that defy gravity, while fabrics tied in tension create forms that oscillate between shelter and...More
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