Coco Capitán

I called her Lacrimosa. Full of tears will be that day. So many tears you could fill an ocean, but she shall raise through the tempest and make out of a sea of adversity the most incredible voyage. The Lacrimosa (2026) in view at @jeankentagauthier

CHECKMATE FENCER Things I can change vs. the ones I can’t Dieu et mon droit (to win) Loving fencing in the @capitana.cc x @ept.seoul technical sneakers I designed. In and off the piste, before and after training.

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CLOSING TODAY ⏳ Since 2022, #CocoCapitan has been repurposing sails, cutting and sewing them to achieve the desired formats and shapes. She selects them primarily for the iconographic or textual elements they already bear. For several years, Capitán has developed a personal alphabet combining numbers and letters; thus, the number “72” sewn onto a sail appeared to her as “TS,” allowing her to form “72UN4M1 / TSUNAMI.” She similarly writes “SYNESTHESIA” as “5YN357H3514”—numbers are often inverted, such as 3/E or 4/A, a phenomenon commonly associated with dyslexia. Thus, on the horizon, she reads “L4CRIMO54” as “Lacrimosa” (2025): a sailboat navigating the ocean of her tears, of which the artist presents a reduced version in the exhibition in the form of a model. • 1️⃣-3️⃣ Coco Capitán “I READ WHILE SHE TALKS / SHE TALKS WHILE I READ” (2024) Acrylic on repurposed sail Diptych, Left: 67 × 55,5 cm / Right: 78.5 × 62 cm Unique 4️⃣-6️⃣ “7SUN4M1 (TSUNAMI)” (2024) Acrylic on repurposed sail 280 × 382 cm Unique 7️⃣8️⃣ “5YN357H3514 (SYNESTHESIA)” (2024) Acrylic on repurposed sail 208 × 183 cm Unique • COCO CAPITÁN MONDAYS ARE FRIDAYS Closing today ⏳ 📍📍Jean-Kenta Gauthier / Vaugirard & Odéon 4 rue de la Procession 75015 Paris 5 rue de l’Ancienne-Comédie 75006 Paris • 📷 Installation views by @nicolas__brasseur / Courtesy Coco Capitán and Jean-Kenta Gauthier __________ @parisgallerymap @seesawmap @comitegaleries

#CocoCapitan’s texts emerge at a near-daily rhythm. Often aphoristic or poetic in nature, they appear as casual notes, rendered in the artist's distinctive handwriting across diverse supports—from monumental sails to hotel notepads, even gallery note cards. To date, this practice has been consecrated by two books, “If You’ve Seen It All, Close Your Eyes” (2019) and “Words on Paper”(2025) both published by #ChoseCommune. • 1️⃣2️⃣ Coco Capitán “My Idea + My Ability + My Lack of Ability = My Art” (2026) Graphite on paper 14.7 x 10.5 cm Unique 3️⃣4️⃣ “I miss You” (2025) Colour pencil on paper 12,7 x 10 cm Unique 5️⃣ “Mondays Are Fridays”, Installation view at JKG Vaugirard 6️⃣ “Series of Works in Which the Title Is the Work” (2023) Pen on paper 14.8 × 10 cm Unique 7️⃣-🔟 “Words on Paper” Softcover with flaps 396 pages, 18.8 x 13.3 cm 39 EUR — Order your signed copy ➡️ @jkgbooks link in bio 🔗 • COCO CAPITÁN MONDAYS ARE FRIDAYS Last days — Closing Saturday ⏳ 📍📍Jean-Kenta Gauthier / Vaugirard & Odéon 4 rue de la Procession 75015 Paris 5 rue de l’Ancienne-Comédie 75006 Paris • 📷 Installation views by @nicolas__brasseur / Courtesy Coco Capitán and Jean-Kenta Gauthier __________ @parisgallerymap @seesawmap @comitegaleries

La beauté latina o la belleza americana M le Monde: @m_magazine Photographer: @cococapitan Creative Director: @jbtalbourdet Production Manager at M le Monde: @pauline.auzou Stylist: @claudiaasinclair Hair: @moemukai23 Make Up: @laurenfreynolds Casting Director: @peoplefile Artistic Production: @thedanimatthews , Production: @lgstudio_ , @camillamlewis , @grainger.jake Executive Production: @creativeexchangeagency Post Production: @studioeerie Talent @honeyord @lrschlz @liz_x_beth_ @_.angelceballos @luisantoniodagua @victoriapach Raga @peoplefile Sergio @peoplefile Finolis @blueprintsldnagency Styling Assistants: @misha.davis , @saskiahast Hair Assistants: @myujisato , @fashionsfaithboutique Make Up Assistants: ⁠@moochimade , @margheritafabbro_mua

I don’t want to, shouldn’t need to…

If in #HongKong, visit “Imagination Investments,” #CocoCapitan’s first exhibition in the city, on view across three locations at Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay, as well as in the streets of Soho and Lan Kwai Fong. On this occasion, Capitán presents the Hong Kong iteration of “Memory Adoption Bureau,” the artist’s ongoing participatory project engaging with collective memory and inviting visitors to adopt individual memories in the form of vernacular photographs. By redistributing over 10,000 vernacular photographs one by one, #MemoryAdoptionBureau proposes a reallocation of responsibility, reframing questions of authorship, ownership, and value. Bringing together photographs, paintings on canvas and sails, poems, sculptures, an in situ project, a participatory installation, and public interventions, all works in “Imagination Investments” incorporate elements of Capitán’s idiosyncratic handwritten texts. • COCO CAPITÁN IMAGINATION INVESTMENTS Until April 26 📍@artistreehk and 67F One Island East Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay Hong Kong 📍Billboards in SoHo and Lan Kwai Fong Hong Kong Organized at @taikooplace_hk as part of Swire Properties Arts Month (@swireproperties_art ) with the support of @bankjuliusbaer @jeankentagauthier @creativeexchangeagency

I don’t care for the important stuff, I just want to ride the bus and listen to jazz.

Clara was the first sailor, I think we took this picture fourteen years ago or so. Before I had published any books, before NAÏVY existed as a series. We spent the day walking and walking and taking photo after photo. In the evening, we would look at pictures from my recent trip to China, before ‘Middle Point Between My House and China’. Thank you to Clara and to all my seaters who let me take a part of them and translate into a part of my universe. It feels moving to come to Hong Kong to find this photo in the South China Morning Post. Thank you for all the visits, all the press, all the kind words. I’m so grateful and humbled. My art is nothing without your soul appreciating it. Imagination Investments at @artistreehk @taikooplace_hk @swireproperties_arts Article by @sarah.keenlyside Press photos by @jocelyntamstudio Thank you @purplepr @tsangtszlinggg @_hauruhayden @clara3000 @scmpnews @scmp_postmag @jeankentagauthier @creativeexchangeagency @adavsada @lizachanmc

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