About
It goes beyond being an artist; it’s about creating a space which challenges the status-quo.
Her work is autobiographical and explores what it’s like to be human, a mother and a queer person from the global majority. While embracing the rollercoaster of life, she translates feelings through: text, performancs, pictures, drawings and installations. In 2025, she showcased her first solo-expo in Au Jus, contributing to Qommunity’s meeting at reading room. In 2026 she exhibited her work in Les Grand Carmes in Brussels.
In her commissioned art works, she created words for various artists such as Vincen Beeckman (FOMU, 2023) She contributed to Micro Tattoos (Lannoo), a best-selling book in its genre. One of the films ‘Where Do I Belong’, she scripted, was selected for the Anima Syros International Animation Festival.
The body is always her starting point. Through dance, she is able to search for the words which lie in her body. Stories that are ready to be told. As a performer, she produced ‘Can you taste the colour of your voice’, a piece exploring where one body stops and the other begins, shown in FOMU Antwerp and at Qommunity Festival. As a dancer, she dances in the music video of the Belgian artist Hantrax. In all she does, she loves to share her own research and practice. Her Moving Meditation workshops have been showcased at Horst arts & music festival, FOMU Antwerp, Recyclart and many others.
With her artist collective Diamonds in the Sky, Coco stages artists doing invisible labour. Why? To make all that is invisible to the public eye. Research shows that when things are invisible, people take them for granted. As a society, people often only become visible once they need something from them. Visible and valued. By staging people doing their laundry or resting, not only do they become visible but also moneraty rewarded for things they would normally do for free.
In today’s society, we don’t only need a redistribution of power, but a redefinition of value. What do we value? Who do we value? How do we value mothers, bodies resting, angry bodies, mothering bodies, bodies from the global majority, queer bodies? Coco identity as all of them, and sees this as her privilege. At the heart of everything Candido does, she aims to free herself from modern versions of slavery.
“The possibility of making the impossible possible is what drives me forward in life. I have always been a dreamer. And transforming my dreams into real creations is my favourite part of the human experience.”