Diana Coca’s journey began as far back as her memory stretches–to her childhood, when her father read Homer’s The Odyssey to her at bedtime. From that point on, if anything can be said to define the life and work of this artist, it is her tireless bid to understand the human mind and human behaviour. After graduating in fine art (specializing in photography) from Brighton University and in philosophy from the University of the Balearic Islands and being awarded an M.A. in Dance and Performance Research from the Centro Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico, she swiftly found that her body could provide the material able to afford the necessary independence for exploration and analysis, while action was a way of creating an objective reality, and photography allowed her to perceive the energy hidden to the naked eye.

Given, as Sartre said, that actions are the only things that can be deemed to be truly real in life, Diana triggers a creative mechanism for representing the differing realities she perceives. And she flies. She flies using her body as the vehicle for this action. She uses her body as a catalyst for energies, and improvisation as a means of achieving the trance that all creative acts involve. Diana sees herself as being as strong as a rock and as soft as a sponge. She absorbs and channels concepts and energies, disgorging conclusions and truths evident to all, which our brains nonetheless tend not to see. In the style of Donna Haraway, Diana Coca questions the centrality of our eyes in patriarchal Western culture, intervening in public spaces as if they were yet another artistic space, influencing them and letting them influence her, letting her senses intoxicate her through hearing, smell, taste, touch and sight–like a visionary shaman who opens our eyes to the world that we fail to see in normal conditions of social blindness.

Since time and space are inherently involved in action, photography is the perfect tool for the artist to capture everything in movement. It traps moments presented as flashes of lucidness. Diana Coca’s photographs are once again proof of how, as Carolee Schneemann said, if light is energy and photography captures light, then photography captures the energy of actions, exploring sensations, emotions and their meaning, with everything that this entails.

Diana Coca has a PhD in Humanities from the Pompeu Fabra University. Among her individual exhibitions, "Vuelo luego existo" (2021) at Casal Solleric curated by Mercedes Estarellas, "Where is Diana?" Photo España (2017) at Tabacalera Promoción del Arte, Madrid, "Made in China" or "Self as subject & object" at the SKL gallery in Palma. In the collective exhibitions in which she has participated, the highlights are "On rau la realitat?" in Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma; "Shaped in Mexico: coexistiendo a través de la serpiente emplumada" Spazio About, the Venice Biennale; Dialogue 对话, Meridian Space in Beijing, among others. Coca participated in artistic residences in Belgium, China, Mexico or the United States. Her work is part of collections such as the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, the General Directorate of Fine Arts, the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Tijuana Cultural Center (CICUT), among others.