Coco Villa
Self Portrait - The morning I left for Berlin from Miami (2020)
During their residency, in collaboration with EC and REVOLVE, Coco worked on How To Turn Poison into a Meal, and specifically the films and performances accompanying the exhibition which opened at the YMI Cultural Center shortly after their residency ended. Documentation about the process may be viewed by clicking the posts below.
Coco Villa is an Afro-Colombian interdisciplinary artist. Villa was born in New York and raised throughout the United States, South America, and the Caribbean. She grew up dancing salsa, merengue, and cumbia, and started sewing as a child under the influence of her grandmother, a wedding dress designer at the time, and her mother, who worked in upholstery and furniture design. In her late teens, she began to explore modern dance and performance art, and experimenting with film photography and self portraiture.
Coco Villa attended The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in 2012 and continued her multimedia studies through apprenticeships, residencies, and fellowships in New York, Colombia, Spain, and Germany.
Coco Villa’s work integrates her exploration of identity, gender, culture, and history through sustainable fashion design, photography, film, and dance, often using herself as subject.
Villa’s choreography and performance with her textiles as both object and performing cloth is simultaneously playful and immemorial.
Her works have been included in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally.
To follow along with her work:
instagram: @_casadecoco_
https://wwwcasadecoco.space/
