Passing though painting on Fernanda Gomes

Stephen Horne’s article, “Passing Through Painting, On Fernanda Gomes”, is painting differently, again. He writes, “Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1960, just a few years prior to a long period of dictatorship, FERNANDA GOMES makes the case for intimacy and vulnerability, for art’s release from the demands that it be immediately important or offer solutions.” Spare, restrained, elegant are words that could be applied to her installations. Stephen Horne describes her exhibitions as “counter heroic”, suggesting instead “a voluntary poverty”. He goes on, “Her art is a haptic practice of interweaving space-time and commonplace objects in which she proposes that there is already an empathy, albeit suppressed, in our dealings with things as well as space, persons and other sentient beings.”