Antonio Vega Macotela’s multidisciplinary practice is centered around site-specificity, and often engages marginalized communities such as prison inmates, miners, Indigenous communities, and hackers. Examining different forms of currency such as precious metals, fiat, and crypto, Vega Macotela’s work explores notions of labor, value, and exchange. His projects frame these currencies as systems through which social relations are established and negotiated. The artist’s work also investigates the effects that the extraction of these resources have on the environment.