Artist: Max Hooper Schneider Venue: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Date: September 21 – February 2, 2020 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release, and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of High Art, Paris and Maureen Paley, London. Photos by Jeff McLane. Press Release: While for the moment, the fates of human and non-human beings are inextricably entangled, the power of humans is waning. We arrived late on the planet and are likely to exit early. —Max Hooper Schneider A mad scientist, magician, alchemist, trash master, doomsday predictor, and borderline hoarder, Max Hooper Schneider has spent the past decade developing a taxonomy of living things, dead technology, and refuse, transforming grotesque souvenirs of everyday life into exquisite objects and environments. His passions for the nonhuman world and marine biology fuel his explorations of the often tragic results of humanity’...