Horsens Art Museum presents the solo exhibition Lower Lifeforms by  artist Silas Inoue (b.1981). The exhibition is the artist’s first solo exhibition at Horsens Art Museum and includes sculpture, installation and drawing.

Lower Lifeforms is a tribute to the life forms that we humans perceive as inferior, and to materials that we normally consider impure and worthless. The exhibition unfolds as a fabled underworld of demonic beings, anthropomorphic insects, enlarged aquatic organisms and biofuturistic cityscapes inhabited by molds. The works are created from used auto parts, frying oil, plastic waste, plants and living microorganisms. But although at first glance they appear to portray non-human entities, Lower Lifeforms largely reflect us humans, and the more or less sympathetic tendencies that characterise our species and the times in which we live.

With Lower Lifeforms, Silas Inoue has created a universe where analytical thinking plays together with more intuitive perceptions of the world, and where the poetic and the scientific come together to form a starting point for new ways of elucidating topics such as consciousness, evolution, ecology, economics, consumption and globalization.
The exhibition at Horsens Art Museum begins on the facade of the museum building, and spans the interior over four of the museum’s large exhibition rooms. It contains both previous and newly produced works in sculpture, installation and drawing.