Max Hooper Schneider

Max Hooper Schneider's installations and assemblages focus on themes of death, destruction, and mutation. They are a series of fragmented dreamscapes made of chains, fluorescent tubes, monstrous fingers, and other suggested morphologies whose times and places intertwine, hovering in a transitory perimortal state that evokes both loss and resurrection. According to Schneider and his work, each body exists only through its interactions, communications, and exchanges of matter, energy, and information with other bodies. A 'trans-habitat' is created in which a tension exists between the traumatic and the marvelous. ...

High Art was born in 2013 from an interest in bringing together distinct perspectives in advanced practices that are significant to current paradigms in contemporary art. Since its inception, High Art has functioned to provide an economic and logistic framework for artists by reexamining established modes of art commerce and production while attempting to account for an expanding field of art. The gallery has fostered not only the emergence of artists (Olga Balema, Max Hooper Schneider, Julien Creuzet, Matt Copson, Lucy Bull, Hun Kyu Kim, Mélanie Matranga) but also the emergence of new networks and economies (Paris Internationale, Shanaynay). In May of 2017, High Art inaugurated a new space in the heart of the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The space, which is located on the ground floor of an 19th century Haussmannian building, is notable for housing Georges Bizet while he wrote the opera “Carmen”. In December of 2020, High Art opened a second location in a 12th century chapel in the heart of Arles, France. ...