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 Sonia 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.”
