MAX HOOPER SCHNEIDER

Max Hooper Schneider explores the intersections between ecology, technology, and relationality in his artistic practice. With a background in landscape architecture and marine biology, Schneider presents an alternative reality of a post-human world through various means such as dioramic miniature landscapes, uranium glass sculptures, electroplated plants, microscopic cinema, and aquariums filled with human artefacts and marine organisms. In this reality, described by the artist as “trans-habitat”, everything undergoes continuous morphogenesis and autopoiesis. Schneider constructs or simulates unique ecologies devoid of human presence, highlighting the interconnections between different worlds, species, and entities, blurring the boundaries between the living and non-living, and the organic and inorganic.