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Stefanie SchneiderConstruction Site Drive By (Vegas)1999
1999
About the Item
Construction Site Drive By (Vegas) - 2000
Edition 4/10,
44x59cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
artist Inventory #552.04.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider – Construction Site Drive By (Vegas)
In Construction Site Drive By (Vegas), Stefanie Schneider captures the fleeting, fractured essence of a city built on illusion. Las Vegas—glittering, ephemeral, forever under construction—becomes the perfect stage for her ongoing exploration of transience, longing, and the slow decay of the American dream.
Taken from a passing car, the piece distills movement into a frozen, dreamlike frame. The blurred scaffolding, half-built structures, and distant neon glow evoke the strange in-between state of a place that is constantly reinventing itself, erasing yesterday to build tomorrow. The city itself—caught mid-transformation—is a metaphor for the passage of time, the instability of identity, and the way memory fractures into fleeting impressions.
Schneider’s use of expired Polaroid film intensifies this sense of impermanence. The unpredictable textures and faded colors mirror the eroding dreams that line the Vegas Strip—stories of luck, loss, reinvention, and disappearance. What is built today will be gone tomorrow, much like the people drawn to this desert mirage, hoping for a fresh start or one last chance.
There is an undeniable loneliness in Construction Site Drive By (Vegas), an echo of Edward Hopper’s urban isolation but bathed in Schneider’s distinct palette of sun-bleached nostalgia. The image does not just document a city in flux—it embodies the essence of Vegas itself: a place that is both hyperreal and entirely unreal, a landscape of possibility that dissolves upon closer inspection.
Through this piece, Schneider invites us to see the city not as a spectacle but as a ghost of itself, a mirage flickering in the Nevada heat, as temporary and haunting as the memories it leaves behind.
Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen.
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:1999
- Dimensions:Height: 17.33 in (44 cm)Width: 23.23 in (59 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652315887642
Stefanie Schneider
Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen., Bombay Beach Biennale 2018, 2019.
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