Max Hooper Schneider’s polymathic practice brings together the fields of biology, philosophy, and landscape architecture to create objects and environments that speculate on entropic forces and posthuman forms. Max Hooper Schneider develops and explores the aesthetics of succession, abandonment, and the uncanny through habitat-like artworks that materialize and dramatize natural and artificial systems. Conceiving of nature as a process of ceaseless morphological change, Hooper Schneider never takes the idea of the body for granted, instead proposing countless ways for bodies to be continuously broken down, recreated and transformed. With a deeply researched practice that draws upon fieldwork around the world, Max Hooper Schneider defamiliarizes human-centered time scales and material culture, returning time and again to the strangenesses and symbioses that have preceded and that will outlast human civilization.
