Includes essays by Francisco Salado Escaño, Antonio Javier López, Alicia Gutiérrez Mármol and Rajesh Punj, as well as an interview between Rajesh Punj and Ryan Schneider. 

Published in conjunction with Ryan Schneider's exhibition 'Murmuración', on view from Jun 4 to Sep 13, 2026 at La Térmica, Málaga, Spain. 

Like a murmuration, these works join from across landscapes, moments in time, and continents — the Mojave Desert in California, where Schneider lives & works, southern France, Italy, and Andalusia — gathering into a new community of objects, materials, and stories. They invite us to slow down, expand our perspectives, and to consider our place within the larger patterns that bind us to each other and the living world.

Working in wood, stone, and bronze—carving, cutting, grinding, in a primal, almost sacred tension between hand and matter—figures, masks, and monumental forms arise through a physical dialogue of intuitive approach and practiced movement. Each work extends an ancestral gesture binding humanity to nature, memory, and spirit.

— Dana Balicki

Schneider explores various artistic expressions, demonstrating his deep connection to raw materials and a celebration of nature, he draws deep inspiration from the rugged ecosystem of his home environment in California’s Mojave Desert. His works, infused with mythology and mysticism, and often referencing  European Modernism, are characterized by angular and sharp sculpted elements, where wood components and a striking color palette evoke both the gentleness of the natural world and humanity’s primal instincts. His reverence for the sacred in nature connects his work to various pre-Christian traditions, creating powerful echoes throughout his practice and granting his creations a sophisticated, megalithic and meditative quality. Schneider works with earth materials, usually wood, stone, bronze, and gold, to create archetypal forms that invoke pre-history and futuristic states.