Art and Artists
Astrid Barfod
Astrid Barfod (known online as Suequi Natt) is a Uruguayan artist born to Swedish parents. She trained under prominent figures such as Clever Lara and Dante Picarelli, beginning her practice with a focus on the human figure and a deep curiosity for the inner workings of the mind.
Over time, her work evolved toward abstraction – a shift that opened space for a more personal language, one that transcends form to engage with memory, emotion, and the symbolic. Through mixed media techniques that include acrylic, ink, oil, and collage, her compositions construct a psychological landscape: layered, intuitive, and quietly intense.
Barfod’s practice inhabits the tension between order and chaos, structure and spontaneity. Her paintings do not seek to explain but to reveal – suggesting rather than declaring, and inviting the viewer into a deeper, more reflective gaze.
Federico Benites
Federico Benites is a Uruguayan sculptor whose practice explores memory, play, and material legacy through large-scale wooden works. Drawing on carpentry traditions and modernist abstraction, his sculptures translate scenes from life into poetic, geometric compositions. Each piece reflects a deep respect for material integrity, craftsmanship, and narrative resonance-anchored in the land yet open to universal interpretation.
Working exclusively with wood, Benites reclaims traditional fabrication techniques such as marquetry and veneering, infusing them with contemporary relevance. His ongoing series Caballito-monumental wooden horses inspired by childhood toys-has become emblematic of his approach: accessible yet profound, grounded yet soaring, inviting viewers into a space of contemplation, joy, and shared imagination.
Sebastián Mederos
Sebastián Mederos is a Uruguayan artist who has drawn and painted since childhood. Raised by artist parents and influenced early on by his neighbor, painter Solari, he developed a strong connection to figurative art. He studied in the studios of Manolo Lima, Nelson Ramos, and Clever Lara, and later in New York.
Mederos’s work evolved from imaginative character studies to landscapes inspired by nature. A turning point came with his deep exploration of artists like Peter Doig and David Hockney, which helped define his current focus on painting from life and memory.
Today, living in the countryside of Punta del Este, he paints forests, skies, and spaces shaped by observation and emotion. “Painting is like a journey,” he says. “One thing leads to another.”
Luis Fabini
Luis Fabini is a photographer based in New York City. If we define artists differently, then there might be a wide variety of categories for people that work with the same media. Fabini could be also defined as a humanist as well as a visual anthropologist who recognizes the dimensions of the human image within past and present societies. Or maybe a radicalist, one who has to purge art and politics, start with a manifesto and a blank slate in order to establish new or correct principles. He vividly captures the depths of human existence within historical and contemporary societies, intricately illustrating the seamless connection between people, and their land. Fabini’s work is like going to drink at pure springs, clinging to first roots, in order to send history off again in a new direction.