Stef Assandri

Stef Assandri (They/Them)
Uruguayan transdisciplinary artist.

Stef’s artistic practice involves textualities, costume design, cooking, and research-creation. In recent years, they have been exploring and investigating practices that connect topics such as migration, gender, and speciesism. Currently, they are working on a long-term research project that intertwines writing practices and plant-based cooking –as a way of rejecting speciesism by promoting ways of eating without non-human animal exploitation. Through this project, they are weaving an archive that takes various forms of expression, such as publications, performances, dinners, sound pieces, and more.

Since 2022, they have been co-leading the collaborative project transestéril with María del Buey Cañas (2022–present). transestéril operates in transit between different spaces—both artistic and academic—seeking situated ways to engage with artistic research through a transfeminist and anti-speciesist lens.

They co-created the artistic research project TACTICS for a COLLECTIVE BODY (2020-2022) with Renata Lamenza Epifanio and Researcher (>1) at the Academy of Fine Arts and Conservatoire, Antwerp.

They completed a Master’s in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (2019). They hold a degree in Textile and Fashion Design from the University of the Republic (Uruguay, 2015).They were part of the collectives Bailamos Siempre Las Mismas Canciones (Uruguay, 2017–2018) and BARRA Movement (Belgium, 2022–2024). Stef has collaborated and continues to collaborate with Carolina Guerra Filippini, Carolina Mendonça,  Iris Donders, Desirée Cerocien, Sadrie Alves, NOON Collective and artists from the Contemporary Art Foundation (Uruguay).