Tightly bound to identity, Coco Villa leads an interdisciplinary art-research practice, heavily influenced by analog photography and dance, investigating relations between body, object, and landscape. Their work spans across disciplines of performance, fashion design, installation, photography, and film. They utilize material and movement languages to tell autobiographical stories, explore human intimacy, and build familial archives through self-portraiture and choreography. Driven by historical and scientific discovery, Villa thrives in the ocean, in the woods, in the dance studio, photo and design lab, film set and library, playfully creating by hand.