Coco Torres
Work



Project nameCathegory
Year
Mask and Identity
Forms of Disappearance
Yasemin & Gökalp
Orbita
Full Stop
Minimal Collective
Music as Spatiotemporal Turntable
Love Sounds
Soft Action
Stories of Alpine Commons
N9ve
Making Kin: Vanishing of the Chaco
Earth Day
Kokichi
Bloomscapes
Pazza
Querido Domingo
The Lovie Awards
Spineless
Lost Til Found
Unavoidable Limit
Women by Charles Bukowski
Flea Market
Max Siedentopf
Crossover
Transmutation
Thyme Soul
Editorial, Research
Installation, Sculpture
Invitation, Envelope Design
Creative Direction, Identity Design
Poster, Social Media Design
Social Media Identity
Editorial, Research
Logo Design
Performance
Editorial Design: Publication
Web Design, Identity Development
VR Experience: Unity
Touch Designer explorations
Text explorations: Touch Designer
Identity Design, Performance
Creative Direction, Identity Design
Movie Credits
Visual Identity
Web Design, Research
Logo Design
Editorial, Web Design, Performance
Editorial Design
Poster Design
Photobook
Promotion Design post
Promotion Design post
Visual Identity







Forms of Disappearance


This project investigates the Caretos tradition of Portugal’s Trás-os-Montes region as a site of negotiation between ritual and spectacle, cultural continuity and transformation. Through a multidisciplinary approach that blends ethnographic fieldwork, critical theory, and interactive media, the research explores how anonymity, identity, and embodiment are reshaped in the face of tourism, institutionalization, and digital mediation.
2025

The installation invites visitors to engage with stories collected during my field research trip to the Trás-os-Montes region. These stories, shared primarily by local artisans and women, reflect on their cultural heritage and are presented in written form on a screen. Alongside these stories, a montage of fabrics, shells, and colors forms a mask that symbolizes my own cultural heritage and comment on norms blended in our hierarchical society.

A space acoustically filled with questions I posed to the locals during my time in the region. They serve a double purpose: on one hand, they frame the stories of the locals through my presence there as an outsider and researcher; on the other hand, they create a framework through which I explored and reconnected with my own memories and cultural artifacts. A second screen displays 3D renderings of historical masks from the National Museum of Ethnology. By inhabiting these digital artifacts, participants are invited to traverse cultural phantasms and confront unstable identities.

Influenced by a delicate and peaceful environment, the installation creates a space for reflection on gender, labor, and memory. Through embodied interaction, the work challenges dominant visual economies and offers a performative re-reading of cultural heritage.