Pendente 2 was made in 2016, the year after Gomes's landmark inclusion in the 56th Venice Biennale, where she was the only Brazilian artist selected for that edition. It belongs to the body of suspended works that brought her international recognition and stands as one of the single most important examples of her practice. Works by Gomes of this scale are exceptionally rare. At nearly twenty feet in height, it descends from ceiling to floor as a single vertical gesture, its knotted and stitched forms accumulating and loosening as the eye travels downward, the rope and wire pooling onto the ground in blue and natural twists. The work draws on the full range of Gomes's material practice: found and gifted fabrics, lace, satin, printed textiles, and ribbon are stitched and bound with thread in a process that is at once spontaneous and deeply considered. Small bundles sealed in sheer fabric, their contents visible but unreachable, hang from the form's joints, functioning as relics or offerings. Born in Caetanópolis, a town in Minas Gerais that gave rise to Brazil's textile industry, Gomes came to art in her mid-forties after a career in law, and the materials she works with carry the weight of Afro Brazilian cultural memory, domestic tradition, and the reclamation of forms historically coded as craft rather than art. The pendente series is among her most iconic.