AMARES AZIELOS
Bringing the blue down from the sky, the thoughts and emotions that float over the prison space and manage to land on an artistic support. Art as a motor for social inclusion and the community, as a vehicle of cures and creation.
By using the 19th-century technique of cyanotype, Carol Priego leads a project of collaborative experimental photography with the inmates of the Youth Penitentiary Centre (CPJ) and local and international volunteers, linked to a variety of entities of the metropolitan area of Barcelona.
With the clear intention of valuing the female figures of history and of our own reality, the project includes workshops of alternative photography and an innovative exhibition space where five emerging and consolidated photographers dialogue with young people in the centre. The invited artists are Laia Abril, Irene Zottola, Clara Gassull, Cecília Coca and Marta G. Cardellach.
The result of the project can be seen in Àlbum, festival of contemporary image and photography.
Carol Priego
Carol Priego is passionate about the alternative and experimental techniques in photography through which she investigates rhizomatically the concepts of border, territory and archive.
As an activist in a number of associations, she generates collaborative projects through the visual arts with groups of people in vulnerable situations in the local and international fields, from an intersectional perspective that sets out to confront discrimination and break down stigmas.
She was awarded the Arts and Culture Scholarship of the Government of the Republic of Indonesia where she developed the project “Duduk di tepi” of poetry and memory. She has worked in production in various photography festivals in France, Italy and Spain She is currently co-ordinating post-production services in the Catalan cinema industry.