Sebastián Riffo

He lives and works in Chile. His works include painting, photography,3d modeling, digital art, NFT and street art.In his works he shows faceless figures in trench coats maneuvering across deconstructed backgrounds of color. He works with a selective palette and controlled lighting to create veils of lucid colors and mysterious shapes. In his work, absence is a common idea.

He presents an explicit critique of social customs and the creation of social beliefs such as religion, fashion, consumerism, the state, borders, the digitization of life, the excessive desire for success and power.

Beliefs that surround us, cover us, submerge us and eventually deform our capacity and right to free will. Riffo Montenegro manages to veil the image and reveal meaning at the same time, making frank reference to socio-cultural icons that have historically shaped our unconscious discourse.

Through these pictorial allegories, the work provokes in the viewer the need to unveil the image, to discover and understand a new meaning; rethinking and awakening in the individual, the free interpretation, typical of the human condition.