Gomes works with the emotional intensity of confessional art swamped in symbolism. In her work we can identify a narrative with incredible assimilation. From the classic composition of some of her portrait work. The anarcho feminist tone of  her gender statements. To the conceptual narrative of her sculpture and installations. Her work contains a discerning social and cultural critique. 

Loud, messy and unapologetic. Her trade fluctuates between the classification of artefacts and the objectification of self on display in a sort of abject way. Queer  and left wing, yet  unconcerned with it’s contextual politicisations and trends . She reflects her sexuality and political views in a natural  non-partisan way. 

 

Gomes  mediums are: sculpture, installation  and over the last 5 years (until April this year) she  worked extensively with portrait photography for a conceptual piece about photo albums and imaginary families. (This work can be seen in her photographic webpages links above).

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With her 3D work we see an artist trying to redefine material culture,  engulfed in existential crisis: mortality, sexuality and ephemerality via it's medium: chocolate, pillows, fat, preserved animal specimens, hairs, plasticine, tar.

Contextual narratives with their own social history and new meaning from their combined materials. Suggesting that every element has its own history and double meaning. In her ongoing  installation  'Shame on You' , she  uses its conceptual narrative but also relies on external influences to recreate it. A piece that started from an old photograph to become a pillow is  transformed each time she recreates the installation. Objects with  a story but subverted into the history of the moment  of where they are placed.
 

Her ready-mades of broken chairs, rolled carpets, old ladders and gift post cards. Again she reshapes them influenced by the narrative they project. But in the end  they are collages of forms and  old objects with  simplistic formats. 
She is now starting to produce work in 4D hologram projection format. 

 

In her recent gender statement with the production of Wimmin group exhibition she exhibited Nós (We). A series of female erotica photo cut out images closed in archival boxes. Hidden photographs with elaborate cut out designs on Japanese paper hidden in boxes carefully placed on a table.  In this piece she again uses  conceptual narrative  to create  layers of meaning. 

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This portfolio includes a comprehensive thematic collection of her work.
For a more detailed view of the portrait work, visit the photography web pages by pressing the grey buttons above.