Alejandra Prieto is a Chilean artist who studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and completed a master's degree in visual arts at the University of Chile. Her work is primarily sculptural and is constructed with minerals such as coal, lithium, copper, iron, and sulfur.

Prieto conceives minerals as chemical elements in constant transformation, whose value and meaning change depending on their use. She is interested in how minerals not only sustain our material lives but also shape our everyday actions. Through traditional sculptural techniques—such as stone breaking in the case of coal and marble, and mold casting for lithium—Prieto creates sculptures that blend not only different materials but also different production times.

During her residency at GlogauAIR, Prieto will develop a project consisting of a video that reflects on how contemporary art from the Global South is often interpreted through a colonial lens. This project is complemented by small watercolors exploring a universal theme: the relationship between fatigue and rest in contemporary life.

One of Prieto’s main interests is extractivist systems of mineral production, which, in her project at GlogauAIR, are presented from a critical perspective—while also challenging the art system itself, within which a part of the Global Center is mainly interested in the thematic and formal exoticism of art from the Global South.