Trinidad Carrillo

“Through the camera, I discover something else – something the eye alone cannot see.”

While photography remains Trinidad Carrillo’s primary visual medium, her artistic practice spans multiple disciplines, including music, text, performance, and film. Her most recent photo book, Oneiromance (2024), explores plants and herbs imbued with magical or sacred significance, primarily portrayed in her native Peru.

Motivation:

Since the 1990s, artist Trinidad Carrillo has developed a highly distinctive visual language where the dreamlike and the everyday converge in poetic and layered worlds. Through photography and installations, she creates scenes, at once familiar and mysterious, guided by the logic of dreams and intuitive associations.

Humans, animals, plants, and mythological figures appear in tranquil encounters infused with tenderness, wonder, and melancholy. With a singular command of colour, light, and subtle detail, she draws the viewer into suggestive narratives that linger long after.

For an artistry that, through delicate craftsmanship and poetic visual sensibility, allows us to glimpse what lies beyond the visible, Trinidad Carrillo is awarded the 2025 Scholarship from the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture.