SŌ is a Belgian painter whose work explores transformation, stratification and the fragile balance between control and surrender. Through layered surfaces, cracks, textures and chromatic tensions, she develops a material-based practice where painting becomes a space of continuous mutation.
Affected by essential tremors, she gradually integrated this physical reality into her creative process, developing alternative approaches to gesture, precision and surface construction. Rather than limiting the work, this adaptation opened new ways of engaging with material, allowing fragility, resistance and unpredictability to become active elements of the painting itself.
Her recent series Peelings unfolds through superimposed layers of colour partially covered by textured white surfaces, where fragments reappear through cracks, openings and subtle ruptures. Between concealment and revelation, her paintings evoke traces of memory, erosion and emotional landscapes suspended beneath the surface.
Balancing instinctive gesture with carefully constructed compositions, SŌ Legrelle creates works where material organises space, tension and rhythm, transforming imperfection into a form of presence and visual intensity.
