Português
1988, lives and works at São Paulo, Brazil
Gokula Stoffel’s works emerge from an attentive relationship with her surroundings: familiarity with her materials is shaped by the context in which she produces, and her practice is informed and nourished by encounters and exchanges. The artist incorporates fabrics received as gifts, lavender branches gathered near her studio, almost meditative daily exercises, and conversations with friends and acquaintances. Upholstery, warps, resins, and natural and synthetic fibers share space in compositions that combine free execution with palpable emotional intensity, within a research that moves across supports such as painting, sculpture, weaving, and drawing. Stoffel uses her hands in some works, a brush and sewing thread in others, uncovering an underlying order within her practice—one grounded not in fidelity to a single technique or its pristine execution, but in a sinuous process that embraces chance and the inherent properties of matter.
Her solo exhibitions include Um lugar para a cabeça, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Thinking Hands, François Ghebaly, New York, United States (2024); The Moon Between My Teeth, Elizabeth Xi Bauer, London, UK (2023); Espantália, Lanterna Mágica | Projeto Vênus, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Persona, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel (2021); Fevereiro, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil (2019); Change-Change Project, Budapest, Hungary (2018); Para-Sol, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); and Alvorada de Vênus, Auroras, São Paulo, Brazil (2018).
Her group exhibitions include Corpos Terrestres, Corpos Celestes, Galatea Salvador, Salvador, Brazil (2025); Nunca só essa mente, nunca só esse mundo, Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2023); Drops, Galeria Index, Brasília, Brazil (2021); Punk Alegria Tropical, Galeria Dândi, São Paulo, Brazil (2019); Nightfall, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium (2018); Individuation as an Instrument of Abstraction, Kunsteverein, Berlin, Germany (2016); and Abre Alas #12, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016).
