Expanding on her installation Simple Adult Forms, sculptor and visual artist Silke Riis transforms our Haptic Lab into an evolving, interactive ecosystem.
Step into an evolving space that embraces organic decay and release your own speculative fruit flies into the room. Working with raw clay and natural latex, you will imagine and sculpt mutant forms that actively reshape the Museumnight ecosystem in real time.
Simple Adult Forms challenges the modern obsession with exponential growth. In a culture that views starting over as a failure, Riis looks to biology in order to find an alternative narrative. By exploring the life cycles of species that can shrink, revert, or simplify to survive, she questions the current hierarchies of success and aging. Through the lens of reverse metamorphosis, the installation suggests that regressing is not a defeat, but a strategic and beautiful adaptation.
Silke Riis is a sculptor exploring the intersections of transformation, mortality, and speculative evolution. Working with natural latex, she creates decaying, living sculptures that mimic the fragility of biological life. Her work envisions a future beyond our timeline, a world of hypothetical species inspired by marine invertebrates and rainforest flora. Neither purely dystopian or utopian, Silke’s sculptural installations offer a space of composure within the fantasy of our own demise.
