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.