Nacoca Ko
Nacoca Ko is an artist and curator based in Geneva, Switzerland, working across sculpture, moving image, performance, and virtual environments. Her practice engages with non-human and artificial intelligence, exploring how technological systems reshape perception, the personal psyche, collective consciousness, and the environment. By intersecting digital and physical realities, Nacoca examines how attention and awareness shift through immersive and hybrid forms.
Nacoca’s work investigates fluid ecologies shaped by circulation, infrastructure, and migration. In projects such as Neopelagic Drift, she explores emergent ecosystems within oceanic garbage patches, where organisms adapt to artificial habitats and travel across vast distances on plastic debris. Using laser-cut plexiglass, video, and AI-generated imagery, she treats plastic as both habitat and vector and constructs speculative life forms shaped by mutation, error, and hybrid digital processes. Her work reflects on entanglement, adaptation, the continuous transformation of matter, and positions humans as part of interconnected systems.. Drawing on ideas such as Natura Naturans, and ritual and mythopoetic speculation, she considers how life persists and evolves within unstable and rapidly changing environments.
Nacoca’s practice moves between digital and material processes, from VR and AR environments to sculptural works in polymers and concrete. She examines both the immaterial conditions of virtual space and the enduring physical traces of human activity.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including recent presentations in Spinning in Fluid Dreams at Art Genève and Climaxx at Futuros Arte e Tecnologia, Rio de Janeiro. Other exhibitions include Espace_L and Andata/Ritorno, Geneva; Museu Eva Klabin and Tal Art, Rio de Janeiro; Espace Arlaud and En Suite at Lovay Fine Arts, Lausanne; New Currents Festival, Santa Fe; CADAF, Paris; Mock Jungle, Bologna; OXO Tower and Offsite Project, London; DA-Z Digital Arts Zurich; Harddisk Museum and UltraSuperNew Gallery, Tokyo; Dock Basel and Photo Basel. Her work is also presented in virtual platforms such as sabl.live and Newart.city, and is held in private collections.
