Open Studios: Coco Villa & Adrián S. Bará

Come spend the day meeting and talking with KinoSaito’s current artists in residence, Coco Villa & Adrián S. Bará.

Coco Villa is a Colombian-Jamaican self-portrait photographer and multidisciplinary artist. Their work lives at the intersections of fashion design, dance, conceptual performance, installation, photography, and film. Villa’s work is inspired by autobiographical memory, practices the artist grew up with and rituals that primarily came from a long line of Colombian women. Each a collection of records, an archive of its time and place, each an archive of the body.

Adrián S. Bará’s (b.1982) practice, at its core, explores the body and its relation to space and modern architecture, as well as its representation at the intersection between sculpture, installation and painting. The artist’s training as a filmmaker drives his narrative—pulling in from daily materials and positions to construct sculpted situations that are meant to be activated by viewers as they project their own accounts into the objects that invite them to do so. Bará’s artwork often functions as archival traces of events—as stories that are meant to be intervened, challenged, and transformed through acts of looking.