Relics of At the moment’s World Feed an Uncanny Future in Max Hooper Schneider’s ‘Carnival of Gestation’ — Colossal




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#Max Hooper Schneider
#crops
#science fiction
#sculpture

August 19, 2024

Kate Mothes

a sculpture of a microscope encrusted with minerals inside of a glass dome on a white pedestal

Element of “Like Father Like Son.” Set up view of ‘Max Hooper Schneider: Carnival of Gestation,’ UCCA Heart for Up to date Artwork, 2024. Images by Solar Shi. All photos © Max Hooper Schneider, courtesy UCCA Heart for Up to date 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) tackle ever-evolving ecosystems. He explores relationships between consolation and uneasiness, progress and decay, the pure and artificial, and toxicity and nourishment by way of an idea he calls the “Trans-Habitat.” Inside this world, he illuminates an eerie, various future the place dwelling beings and human-made objects have melded by way of 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 stuffed with plant specimens, encased crystallized microscopes inside glass domes, and put in luminous dioramas that forged crops in synthetic mild and vivid colours.

The exhibition options almost 30 sculptures made in the course of 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 constructing artwork, the artist merges seemingly conflicting species, objects, and methods of being on the planet 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 “Grasp’s Temple,” hanging vessels containing crops counsel a lifestyle for organisms might not be capable to survive in any other case.

Carnival of Gestation continues by way of October 13. Discover extra on the artist’s Instagram.

 

a diorama inside of a box with neon lights in orange and blue, filled with plants like an aquarium

“Kindschaft Portal Fossil and Midnight Desert”

a view of a diorama of mushrooms growing out of chicken nuggets, illuminated by a black light

“Forensic Blossom (Hen Nuggets)”

Element of “Like Father Like Son”

a tabletop diorama of a landscape covered in miniature liquor bottles

“Future”

a view of a diorama of mushrooms growing out of sugary cereal, illuminated by a black light

“Forensic Blossom (Cereal)”

an installation view of sculptures at UCCA Dune in China, showing botanical sculptures on white pedestals and glass vitrines filled with plants hanging from the ceiling

Set up view of ‘Max Hooper Schneider: Carnival of Gestation’

a suspended installation of pill-shaped glass vitrines suspended from strings containing plant specimens

Element of “Grasp’s Temple”

a sculpture of a microscope encrusted with minerals inside of a glass dome on a white pedestal

Element of “Like Father Like Son”

a sculpture of a modified fern and palm plant on a white pedestal

“Dendrite Bonsai (Fern and Palm)”

#Max Hooper Schneider
#crops
#science fiction
#sculpture

 

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