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Sebastián Torres
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SEBASTIAN
TOWERS

TRANSMUTATION

BIOGRAPHY

Sebastián Torres is an architect and visual artist. He was born in Pachuca, Hidalgo, and currently lives and works in Mexico City. His artistic practice unfolds at the intersection of painting, energy, perception, and space, understanding art as a means of profound connection and as a living experience capable of generating emotional bonds and collective reflection.

He has exhibited his work in institutional venues such as the Museum of the Palace of Autonomy at UNAM and the Mundo Fútbol Museum of Grupo Pachuca. His work has engaged with diverse contexts, from creating the official portrait of the former governor of Hidalgo, Omar Fayad Meneses, to producing pieces for international collections.

Su proceso se concibe como un laboratorio constante de experimentación técnica, trabajando con óleo, acrílico, aerografía y técnicas mixtas. De manera central, incorpora el uso del péndulo como herramienta gestual.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

""The work is not presented as the final result of a process, but as the sedimented process, always susceptible to reactivation.""

FIELD OF IMMANENCE
The painting ceases to be a surface and becomes a depth. There is no symbolic "beyond" nor a hierarchy between the visible and the invisible. The spiritual, the material, and the technological coexist seamlessly on the same ontological plane.
PRESENCE STATUS
Sebastián's practice is articulated from a processual, not monumental, presence. The work embodies a will made of journeys, displacements, and accumulated material mutations that reject closure or definitive form.
STRATIFICATION AND REVELATION
The work is built in layers that function as strata of experience. Reading it demands sustained attention; each layer revealed opens another, generating a depth that is not spatial, but purely perceptual.
ALETHEIA / UNCOVERING
Siguiendo la noción de Heidegger, la verdad no es representación, sino un acontecimiento que ocurre en la obra. El tránsito entre luz blanca y luz negra revela registros ocultos.
TRANSMUTATION
The series delves into the processes of change. Matter and consciousness traverse states: origin, wonder, collapse, and coexistence. Transmutation is asserted as an ethic of becoming where nothing remains the same.

CATALOGUE: TRANSMUTATION SERIES

CONCEPTUAL GLOSSARY

Aletheia

Greek concept of truth as unconcealment or revelation.

Immanence

Condition in which everything happens on the same plane, without external transcendence.

Sedimentation process

Visible accumulation of decisions and material transformations in the work.

Phosphorus

Activatable matter that allows the revelation of layers under ultraviolet light.

Pendulum

Gestural tool to record the movement and energy of controlled randomness.

Open work

Structure not closed, available for new activations and readings.

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