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Stefanie SchneiderLeaving Town (Sidewinder) - based on the Polaroid2005
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Leaving Town (Sidewinder) - 2005
80x80cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 3451.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider: Alchemy in Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider’s work exists in a liminal state—part photograph, part chemical performance. Working exclusively with expired Polaroid film, she transforms the unpredictability of decay into an aesthetic strategy, not a flaw. Her images are sun-streaked, color-shifted, often dreamlike—but behind the surface is an exacting practice. She does not manipulate the film after the fact. Everything is staged, shot, and captured with precision. The results carry the weight of painting, performance, and cinema simultaneously.
Schneider’s artistic project unfolds across the California desert, where time feels suspended. Her characters linger, dissolve, or escape—caught in unresolved stories that suggest love, loss, and the impossibility of closure. She builds full worlds around them, working with actors, costumes, and sets, sometimes even extending into film. Her epic 29 Palms project and feature-length The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence are evidence of an artist whose vision is not only photographic but architectural—constructing entire emotional landscapes from light and chemistry.
What sets Schneider apart is her commitment to material truth. The chemical burns, color fades, and unpredictable emulsions are not accidents; they are language. This visual vocabulary speaks to transience, to memory, and to a kind of beauty that resists polish. Her work stands as a visual thesis on impermanence—highly physical, deeply cinematic, and emotionally precise.
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:2005
- Dimensions:Height: 31.5 in (80 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652316361882
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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