Elize Sokolova is a painter living and working in Brussels. Her practice is rooted in figurative painting, drawing on surrealism, symbolism, and the visual language of contemporary image culture. Trained in photography and graphic design, she brings a strong sense of composition and image construction to paintings that blur the boundaries between everyday reality, imagination, and the absurd.
Through vivid colour, altered proportions, and unexpected encounters between figures and objects, Sokolova creates scenes that are at once familiar and unsettling. Humour and visual seduction often provide an entry point into works that explore more ambiguous psychological and social tensions, from individual anxieties to broader contradictions within contemporary life.