Palais de Tokyo in Paris will present “Cœur Sauvage” (“Wild Heart”), a solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes, opening 21 October 2026 and running through 14 February 2027. The show gathers a selection of works from the past twenty years of her practice and places them in dialogue with the architecture of the museum’s spaces. Gomes works with textiles, treating fabric as a language of care, memory and resistance. Drawing on stories and rituals handed down through generations, and on her Afro-Brazilian heritage, she stitches, twists, knots and binds found cloth and thread into near-organic sculptural forms. Moving between art and craft, her work draws out the emotional weight of ordinary materials and links individual histories to collective ones. The exhibition is curated by Daria de Beauvais, assisted by Octavienne Denancy and Inès Fodil, and forms part of the Palais de Tokyo’s new season, “Tous les feux, les fleurs”, which explores the idea of territory in the diversity of its meanings — at once concrete and symbolic — approached critically through the eyes of geographers and artists. Within that frame, Gomes’s fabric constructions speak to belonging, inheritance and the traces people leave in the materials they live with. Gomes is represented by Mendes Wood DM and Pace Gallery. Her textile practice has brought her growing international attention, and the Paris presentation offers a chance to see two decades of her work gathered together in one of Europe’s largest centres for contemporary creation, where the scale of the rooms meets the intimacy of hand-worked cloth.