We could say that Ó (ó agudo), Sónia Almeida's retrospective exhibition at Culturgest, curated by Bruno Marchand, poses a question that brings forth another question. The first can take the following form: how can we see painting today? The second can be formulated as follows: how can we think today and therefore understand the digital production of images based on the constituent elements of painting?

Up to the present the career of Sónia Almeida happened mainly abroad. At the start of the millennium, upon completing her Painting degree in Lisbon, Almeida began a journey that took her first to the Netherlands, then the United Kingdom, then finally the United States, and Boston, where she settled in 2008. Still, occasional incursions into the Portuguese exhibition circuit made her noticed, not least because early on Almeida started defying our expectations on what painting can still be at this point.