Advisory Spotlight: Sonia Gomes's Alchemical Sculpture
Sonia Gomes, Vôo (2014). Moorings and different fabrics on wire. 100 x 100 x 60 cm. © Sonia Gomes. Courtesy Pace Gallery.
In Untitled, from the series ‘A vida nāo me assusta’ (2019)—currently on view at Pace Gallery in New York for Sonia Gomes / Marina Perez Simão (3 September–4 October 2020)—wire, seemingly from a cage, is anthropomorphised, whilst also becoming a nest to harbour egg-like stones and jewels. This is perhaps unsurprising, given the title of Gomes’s series directly references Maya Angelou’s poem, ‘Life Doesn’t Frighten Me’, in which she celebrates a child overcoming fear. Gomes presents us with a similarly imaginative metaphorical image; playful and joyful but still reminding us of her past and the struggles of so many others.—[O]
Main image: Sonia Gomes, Vôo (2014). Moorings and different fabrics on wire. 100 x 100 x 60 cm. © Sonia Gomes. Courtesy Pace Gallery.
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