Silas’ uses sculptural form and installations to explore our rapidly changing environment, the non-human and science-fiction futures. He likes tactile materials that emerge from technology and consumption, and forms that seem organic or biological.
Silas is fascinated by encounters with non-human entities (animal & sea-life, extra-terrestrial, mythical forces) that can offer surprising new perspectives. Moments of discovery, when other organisms perform surprising interventions on our constructed human reality.
For Hidden Door 2025, Silas presents DREAMWORMERS.
Dreams travel with the night. Our fears and desires seep into the brickwork, then drip steadily down into the world below. Bad ideas form into billowing clouds that roll over whole continents, soak through drainpipes, and accumulate in the sewers.
But under there, beneath our feet, a strange world flourishes. A whole eco-system of beings that thrive in the stink. Creatures who wake in the small hours of the night, and move from house to house, feeding on the worries that disturb our slumber.
Clouds roll over the moon. We toss and turn. The future hurtles towards us. And as we sleep, the dreamwormers quietly transform our dread into something better: hope for a better tomorrow.
At Hidden Door’s 2024 Birthday Bash in Basement 3 at St James Quarter, Silas presented Ootheca for New Worlds.
An OOTHECA is an egg capsule or case, like that of certain gastropods or insects. This piece will remind us of animal life, alien landscapes, or forms that may grow in the deep-sea. It will incubate new possibilities, that help us remember there’s always other options. As if a giant mythical creature laid a brood of eggs in an underground concrete carpark – eggs that will hatch and grow to become transformative new ways of being in the world.
At Hidden Door’s 2018 Festival at the State Cinema, Silas presented Worms of Surplus.
Silas’ installation looks forward to the future; anticipating the unexpected life forms that may emerge. As a planet, society and race we are a rapidly changing ecology — Silas seeks to create fictional forms, a reminder, almost, of the stories and controversies over alien life on the planets surrounding Earth. In the words of Silas, Worms of Surplus ‘grows where we least expect it’.
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