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#Max Hooper Schneider
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Element of “Like Father Like Son.” Set up view of ‘Max Hooper Schneider: Carnival of Gestation,’ UCCA Middle for Modern Artwork, 2024. Images by Solar Shi. All photos © Max Hooper Schneider, courtesy UCCA Middle for Modern Artwork, shared with permission
Inside a fictional world the place organisms adapt to unusual circumstances and extremely processed meals type the inspiration for brand new life, Max Hooper Schneider’s uncanny sculptures (beforehand) deal with ever-evolving ecosystems. He explores relationships between consolation and uneasiness, development and decay, the pure and artificial, and toxicity and nourishment by an idea he calls the “Trans-Habitat.” Inside this world, he illuminates an eerie, various future the place residing beings and human-made objects have melded by a steady cycle of destruction, transformation, and re-creation.
Hooper Schneider’s first institutional solo present in China, Carnival of Gestation, opened final month at UCCA Dune in Beidaihe. All through the museum’s distinctively curving, natural structure, the artist has suspended pill-like vitrines full of plant specimens, encased crystallized microscopes inside glass domes, and put in luminous dioramas that solid crops in synthetic gentle and vivid colours.
The exhibition options almost 30 sculptures made through the previous decade, together with six new large-scale items commissioned by UCCA. Difficult an anthropocentric perspective of each the world and the act of creating artwork, the artist merges seemingly conflicting species, objects, and methods of being on the earth in an exhibition that’s half wunderkammer and half parallel universe.
Hooper Schneider invitations guests into environments and ecosystems devoid of individuals but inextricable from human affect. In “Like Father Like Son,” for instance, microscopes encrusted in minerals are housed like artifacts of a bygone period, and in “Master’s Temple,” hanging vessels containing crops recommend a lifestyle for organisms could now not be capable of survive in any other case.
Carnival of Gestation continues by October 13. Discover extra on the artist’s Instagram.
“Kindschaft Portal Fossil and Midnight Desert”
“Forensic Blossom (Chicken Nuggets)”
Element of “Like Father Like Son”
“Destiny”
“Forensic Blossom (Cereal)”
Set up view of ‘Max Hooper Schneider: Carnival of Gestation’
Element of “Master’s Temple”
Element of “Like Father Like Son”
“Dendrite Bonsai (Fern and Palm)”
#Max Hooper Schneider
#crops
#science fiction
#sculpture
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