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2017
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Balancing (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inventory 20231.
Not mounted.
Consider the work of Stefanie Schneider not as a body of photographs, but as a cartography of impermanence — an archive of fugitive moments captured in a medium that is itself disintegrating. These are not simply images. They are time-wounded documents, infused with the sorrow of entropy and the poetry of chemical failure. They tremble. They vanish as you look.
In Schneider’s universe, the desert is not a backdrop. It is a metaphysical condition — a place beyond civilization, where narrative begins to fracture under the sun, and where emotion exists in a slow, silent collapse. Her use of expired Polaroid film — with its inherent unpredictability and ghost-like distortions — becomes a philosophical act. The image is dying as it is born. There is a madness in this. And a kind of truth.
Her figures are not characters but phantoms. They appear in the frame like survivors of something unnamed — perhaps a romance, perhaps a catastrophe. Perhaps the same thing. They do not perform. They linger. They haunt. Their gestures are interrupted, as if halfway through remembering something unbearable.
In the tradition of the Wabi-sabi aesthetic, Schneider’s work honors what is broken, unfinished, and decaying — but without sentimentality. There is no comfort in these images, only the aching beauty of things that cannot last. One must ask: what kind of world do we inhabit, where even our dreams come to us already faded? Her work suggests we are trapped in a continuum where memory corrodes and time devours its children without ceremony.
As you engage with Schneider’s photographs, resist the temptation to interpret them. Instead, listen. They speak in the frequency of ghosts — not loudly, but with a persistence that cannot be ignored.
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, DZ Bank Collection, Frankfurt.
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:2017
- Dimensions:Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)Width: 19.3 in (49 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
- More Editions & Sizes:20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Price: $380
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652316413182
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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