Fernanda Gomes (Brazil, 1960) is a seminal figure in contemporary Brazilian art, known for her radical poetics of the ordinary. Emerging in the 1980s within Rio de Janeiro’s conceptual and Neo-Concrete lineage, Gomes constructs site-specific constellations of found materials—wood, string, paper, tape, and dust—that question material permanence and visual perception. Her practice privileges the act of assembling over the act of making, where minimal gestures, spatial rhythm, and light modulation operate as languages in themselves. Refusing spectacle, she turns the exhibition into a living ecology of relationships—an unstable field of attention that dissolves hierarchies between object, architecture, and viewer.
Fernanda Gomes refines a radical poetics of remainder, assembling everyday materials—wood offcuts, string, tape, dust—into site-specific constellations that recalibrate perception. Her works stage a near-invisible theater of adjustments, where placement, interval, and light become primary media. In dialogue with Brazilian Neo-Concrete sensibilities, Gomes insists on contingency over composition, treating the exhibition as a living ecology responsive to architecture and time. The result is a phenomenological minimalism: fragile yet exact, anti-spectacular yet acute—an ethics of attention.
