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Coco Capitán: Is It Tomorrow Yet?

August 2, 2018 - January 27, 2019

Daelim Museum presents <Is It Tomorrow Yet?>, a solo exhibition of Coco Capitán, a photographer and artist who was chosen as a
‘Young Art Star’ and is drawing wide attention from global brands and media, for the first time in Asia. The exhibition features some 150 works
consisting of photography, paintings, handwritings, videos and installations by the artist who has candidly and audaciously expressed herself
in unconventional ways.

The artist’s works freshly resonate with the fields of both commercial and fine art. The photographs are marked by an atypical color scheme and
composition while the handwritten aphorisms make sincere statements of the feelings and represent the voices of the millennial generation.
Her recent project with Gucci on the Art Wall and ‘capsule collection’ especially gained wide public interest and international acclaim and is considered
one of the most successful artistic collaborations with a fashion brand.

The exhibition showcases Coco Capitán’s art world, ranging from installations that provide her contemporary interpretation of pop art to
imagination-based paintings and handwriting works that encapsulate her mixed emotions in a witty manner. Laden with thoughts about the present
and anxiety about the future, her works will provide those of us who are also struggling with uncertainties in life with an opportunity to feel a touch
of comfort and empathy.

IS IT TOMORROW YET?

Boy in socks, Part of the series: Bums & Tums, first published in Dust magazine, London, 2017,
C-type Print, 72 x 93cm

Picture of Blue Sky Falling into Blue Ocean, London, 2016, Mixed Media, 180 x 120cm

Angels walk with me, London, 2016, Mixed Media, 180 x 120cm

Hasta la vista, First published in
M Le Monde magazine, London, 2015,
C-type Print, 90 x 112cm

Swimmer at the edge of the pool, From the series: Ten Hours a Day, Six Days a Week:
The Spanish Olympic Synchronized Swimming Team, Barcelona, Spain, 2018,
C-type Print, 270 x 177cm

London-based photographer and artist Coco Capitán (b. 1992, Spain) majored in fashion photography at the London College of Fashion and earned master’s degree in photography at the Royal College of Art. She works across a wide range of genres including photography, painting, mural, text, video and installation with a distinctive sense of candidness and freedom. She has shot campaigns for world-renowned fashion brands and magazines such as <Vogue>, <Dazed>, ‘Burberry’, ‘Maison Martin Margiela’ and ‘COS’. Realising her artistic potential as a Young Art Star chosen by Gucci last year, she undertook a project to embellish the exterior of Gucci buildings in New York, Milan, Florence and Miami. She was invited to Art Basel Miami 2017, premiering her short film ‘Learning to Transcend the Physical Barrier that Owning a Body Implies’. As a young artist with a great talent and skill, she was awarded FF+WE Prize from the Photographers’ Gallery in 2015 and was appointed as a member of the judging panel at the Hyères fashion and photography festival in 2016.