SEBASTIAN TREND

Sebastian Trend is interested in the concept of change: the nature of permanence and impermanence, questioning how one holds on to the transitory. Images are mutated or degraded using a variety of processes; the emulsion of photographs is melted and partially destroyed. Borne out of the tradition of Vanitas art, his work expresses the futility of our attempts to make the past or our memories permanent through the images we create, revealing those images’ fragility and the ever-present possibility of their destruction.