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Stefanie Schneider
Hot Tub - Contemporary, Polaroid, Nude, Women, 21st Century, Color

2016

$320
£246.17
€285.73
CA$451.28
A$505.51
CHF 265.51
MX$6,146.78
NOK 3,362.22
SEK 3,191.65
DKK 2,132.50

About the Item

'Hot Tub' (Heavenly Falls) 2016, 20x20cm, Edition 1/10, digital C-Print based on the Polaroid, Certificate and signature label, artist inventory number: 19715.01, unmounted. Mirrors in Dust: The Temporal Alchemy of Stefanie Schneider In the heat-hazed edges of the California desert, Stefanie Schneider’s images shimmer like half-remembered dreams—fragments of a life not quite lived, or maybe lived too deeply to recount with certainty. Her world is built on the chemistry of memory: images born not from precision but from the beautiful uncertainty of expired Polaroid film. What remains on the surface is not just a photograph—it is a mirror clouded with longing, nostalgia, and the gentle erosion of time. Schneider’s work resists the rigidity of chronology. Instead, it slips between moments, presenting narratives that are not linear but looped—mirrored reflections of lives echoing in sun-drenched motels, trailers, and empty swimming pools. Every image she creates seems to be both a beginning and an ending, holding within it the potential of a story just out of reach. Time in Schneider’s universe is an emotional medium, not a technical one. Her expired film—a medium decaying even as it is exposed—acts as a temporal collaborator, distorting color, softening edges, and dissolving clarity. It is as though time itself participates in the telling. Her portraits and landscapes are less documents and more hauntings, appearing as if through the fogged lens of memory. The colors bleed like bruises, or like the fading echoes of something that once mattered and might again. Mirroring plays out subtly, not only in compositional choices but in the metaphysical reflections her work invites. Characters recur, sometimes played by the same people, sometimes shifted into new roles—alter egos of themselves. The viewer becomes a participant in this mirroring, projecting personal memory onto the universal longing embedded in the images. We see ourselves not just as observers, but as counterparts—lost somewhere in a similar desert of time and feeling. What Stefanie Schneider gives us is not nostalgia, but evidence that the past and the present can exist side by side. Her work reminds us that memory is not static; it is chemical, emotional, sometimes unstable—and always alive. Why do you think it is important to own art? 'We have art in order not to die of the truth' Nietzsche

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