North of Bogotá, Colombia, you can find Parque Jaime Duque. The vintage theme park features include a dinosaur garden, scaled recreations of the Seven Wonders of the World, a medieval castle, and a labyrinthine underground journey through a set of dioramas that take the visitors through the entire history of mankind, complete with a Big Bang, colonial encounters, and the dream analysis of Sigmund Freud. But what if the dioramas depicted not the history of humankind but the future history of a post-human world? That is the work o of Max Hooper Schneider. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:
Schneider’s practice revolves around the idea of the trans-habitat, what he describes as “a relentless onslaught in which bodies…are continuously created, transformed, destroyed, and recreated.” His works imply this cyclical process as otherworldly organisms consume what were once everyday objects, and humans appear displaced from their role as primary actors.
Many sculptures veer toward the grotesque like “Pond Scum Phalanx,” which features a mass of vibrant fishing lures entwined with grimy clumps of slime. Other pieces like “Cereal Cave” and “UNDERTOW MOON” nod to the potential cause of destruction, as neon light cloaks the ecosystems making them appear almost radioactive.
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