Eleonore “Leo” Sok is a writer, transdisciplinary artist, and performer based in Phnom Penh.

Writing is the core engine of her practice. A thread that runs through every medium she explores, from theater, performance art, and sound, to photography and documentaries. Her work delves into identity, memory, transgenerational heritage, and the unspoken space between personal and collective history.

Moving from an earlier background in journalism and documentary storytelling, which taught her how to listen and observe, she published the essay Les Cambodgiens (2019), a series of portraits bringing nuance and insight into contemporary society. Over time, that impulse turned inward and sensory; through years of photography and collaboration with dancers and movement artists, she organically expanded into performance as a space where poetic text becomes fully alive.

Today, her performance work is defined by a visceral and poetic approach to language and the body. She shapes her pieces from raw material: intimate narratives, personal objects, and cross-language texts, exploring what we inherit, what we hold onto, and what remains unspoken.

This ongoing exploration of memory also led her to direct the documentary Depuis le Jardin (2025), a testimony to the fall of Phnom Penh and the subsequent retreat into the French Embassy of a mother and her son, connecting with the invisible scars of these traumatic events.

A former resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2024), her recent creations include the trilingual performance I have chaos on the edge of my lips (2025) and the solo work Burning Mouth Syndrome (2026), which bridge personal archives with contemporary stage presence.