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Stefanie Schneider
Renée's Dream (Days of Heaven) - Analog, Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, mounted

2005

$28,000
£21,245.76
€24,292.62
CA$39,108.41
A$43,483.23
CHF 22,704.54
MX$529,296.77
NOK 289,700.07
SEK 271,435.13
DKK 181,300.31
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Renée's Dream (29 Palms, CA) - 2005 32 pieces, Edition 3/5, 31 x 38 cm each, installed 276 x 164 cm including gaps. 32 analog C-Prints, hand printed by the artist, based on 27 original Polaroids. Artist inventory 8072.03. Signature on back with certificate. Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection. Ships in a crate. Exhibition: 29 Palms, CA, Spesshardt & Klein, 2008 (S) Published in 'Stranger than Paradise' (Hatja Cantz), 2005 Renes Dream (1999) – Stefanie Schneider Stefanie Schneider’s Renes Dream is a masterful composition of 32 individual Polaroids, arranged in a sequence that mirrors the visual rhythm of cinema. This work exemplifies Schneider’s ability to harness the unique characteristics of expired Polaroid film to create a world that is at once surreal and deeply evocative. Within the grid of images, a fragmented narrative unfolds—otherworldly yet intimate, fleeting yet immersive. The interplay of light, color shifts, and chemical reactions on the film surface is not incidental but a deliberate orchestration of mood and meaning. Through her meticulous process, Schneider transforms the unpredictability of her medium into an intentional aesthetic language, capturing the essence of memory as something fluid and mutable. Like a film paused mid-thought, Renes Dream invites the viewer into a space of quiet contemplation. Its characters exist in a landscape both real and imagined, suspended in an atmosphere thick with possibility. The work resists linear storytelling, instead offering a poetic meditation on time, longing, and the delicate impermanence of human experience. Schneider’s approach places her in a lineage of artists who challenge the boundaries between photography and cinema, blurring the distinction between documentation and dream. Renes Dream is not just an artwork—it is a passage into a world where moments linger, dissolve, and reassemble in the viewer’s own interpretation.

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