20 pages
49.5 × 70 cm
Edition of 200

In 2023, Coco Capitán announced her own death on the front page of a newspaper read by an incredulous female character (The Present Morning Times: Bath Time Drama—the text is inspired by Mark Rothko’s obituary in The New York Times in 1970). In 2025, this edition of The Present Morning Times took shape as a self-published artist’s book which, while reporting the sad news on its cover, overflows with humour through its wordplay, aphorisms, and whimsical editorials, deploying all the codes of the press, from the crossword puzzle to the expected obituary, not to mention advertisements—here for Capitana, the brand launched in real life by the artist.
    Coco Capitán knows the press well, and it is in this context that she photographed for a US magazine the actress Cate Blanchett reading her Present Morning Times.