ABOUT
Silke Riis (b. 1998, Copenhagen) is a sculptor and installation artist who works with transformation and mortality at the core of her practice.
Using natural latex and other ephemeral material in experimental ways, she creates slowly decaying sculptures that mimic the fragility of life itself.
Her work is part of the science-fiction subgenre and artistic movement ‘speculative evolution’, which blends evolutionary science and biology with fantasy to create new plants and animals from speculative futures. Her sculptures can be seen as these hypothetical species, and through this practice she playfully envisions a future beyond our timeline.
To Silke, the future is equally scary as it is exciting, and she translates this duality into her sculptures that are both creepy and beautiful, dystopian and utopian at the same time.
She is currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Using natural latex and other ephemeral material in experimental ways, she creates slowly decaying sculptures that mimic the fragility of life itself.
Her work is part of the science-fiction subgenre and artistic movement ‘speculative evolution’, which blends evolutionary science and biology with fantasy to create new plants and animals from speculative futures. Her sculptures can be seen as these hypothetical species, and through this practice she playfully envisions a future beyond our timeline.
To Silke, the future is equally scary as it is exciting, and she translates this duality into her sculptures that are both creepy and beautiful, dystopian and utopian at the same time.
She is currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Tactility is a cornerstone in her work,
and you are almost always encouraged to touch it.