Carol Priego

Carol Priego (Spain) is a visual artist, researcher, and mediator. Currently a Fulbright Scholar in New York, she conducts transnational research on Opuntia ficus-indica as a mediator of ecological and political histories between the Mediterranean, the United States, and Mexico. Trained in political science and visual art, she examines how images shape power relations, navigating visibility, erasure, and collective imaginations. Her practice weaves together analog, digital, and experimental photography with archival inquiry and collaborative processes, positioning image-making as both a site of research and a space for collective engagement.

During residencies in Montreal and Rouyn-Noranda in 2025, she presented Roca Daurada, exploring links between how daguerreotypes captured images of the land, creating a moment of “landscape extraction” through photography, and later mining physically extracts from that same land—with the same metals (copper, silver, gold) as the shared elements connecting both processes. She also created Amares Azielos, a project developed in a penitentiary addressing image deprivation in contexts of restricted freedom, and coordinated the collective photobook resulting from the project, which was awarded an ADG Laus. Her work has been presented in New York, Spain, Tunisia, Indonesia, and Canada.