Coco Sian performs at Contemporary Cluster in Rome with grandfather Donovan

Coco Sian, 25-year-old artist and granddaughter of Scottish musician Donovan, presented 'Exposure Performance' at Contemporary Cluster in Rome, curated by Angelo Cricchi, with backdrop images by Katastrofffe. Donovan, a key figure of the 1960s cultural revolution, was present. Coco Sian, born in 1994 in the UK and raised in Ireland, studied in Florence and had her first show at Origin gallery in Dublin in 2017. The performance involved her breaking a central photograph and reconstructing it with tape, filmed by Milena Krawetz. Donovan has worked with David Lynch for over 30 years promoting transcendental meditation, which he learned in India in 1968 with John Lennon and George Harrison. The event linked Donovan's 1960s environmental activism to contemporary youth movements, with Coco Sian's work reflecting her family's artistic legacy and contemporary anxieties.