NATURA SPIRITUALIS

20 Sept 2025 - 18 Jan 2026

Total installation in the entire ground floor of the Art Center, created by: video and performance artist Noelia Mora Solvez designer and visual artist Jeppe Worning sound artist Johannes Smed

In Natura Spiritualis, the forest and spaces of Silkeborg Bad are the great source of inspiration. So here it is about magnificent spaces, mysterious nooks, large fallen trees with roots sticking up and pointing to the sky.

How are the strange creatures doing here in Silkeborg in the fall of 2025? How are we humans doing? How is nature doing?

The artists' goal is, within the Art Center, to create a simultaneously bizarre and alluring universe that seems to have grown naturally and organically without human intervention. The universe is created as a site-specific total installation that embraces the spaces, the soundscape and us as beings. Upon closer inspection, this universe is deeply connected to and perhaps completely controlled by man-made technology. We will experience this particularly clearly when we encounter the small video-projected insect-like figures composed of human body parts.

The exhibition is the culmination of the artists' research over five years and is the third of three exhibitions of special universes inhabited by small, strange, insect-like human bodies.

A statement and some questions that the artists want to play with are: “The human body is not just a shell, but our indisputable starting point for understanding and experiencing the world. The body is the prerequisite for the here-and-now experience of the external and the internal. The body is the place from which we must experience our lives, ourselves and our surroundings, and it is the pivot point from which we can ask questions of the world and wonder about the world.Does this mean, for example, that a different body gives a different understanding of the world? Would this open up to another world at all?”

Read the speech that Anders Ruby - philosopher, lecturer and college teacher - gave at the opening of the exhibition, here