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Stefanie Schneider
Into the Wild (Stranger than Par - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photography

2004

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£531.67
€614.25
CA$981.08
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CHF 573.08
MX$13,390.03
NOK 7,334.59
SEK 6,943.13
DKK 4,584.08
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Into the Wild (Stranger than Paradise) - 2001, 32x52cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 2896. Not mounted. An autumn day, golden leaves drifting in slow spirals, the air thick with the scent of earth and quiet decay. Light filters through the trees in fractured beams, warm and deceiving, as if the world itself refuses to acknowledge the tension coiled beneath the surface. And then—almost lost in the wild—a man. A shadow among the branches, hat low over his eyes, rifle raised and steady. He’s not just hiding. He’s making a stand. A last one, maybe. Fear and defiance blur together in his stance, his grip. He is the outcast, the rebel, the man who could no longer bend to the weight of the world and so turned his back on it. But the forest is no refuge, only a thin barrier between him and whatever is closing in. He is both predator and prey, the hunted and the hunter. This moment—captured in the faded hues and chemical textures of Stefanie Schneider’s Into the Wild—isn’t about what came before or what comes next. It’s about now. The breath before the trigger pulls, before the leaves settle, before history swallows him whole. 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. COLLECTIONS DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany / Dreyfuss, Basel, Switzerland / Schmidt Bank, Regensburg, Germany / 
Holtzbrinck Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany / Sammlung Sander, Berlin, Germany / ARTISTS for TICHY - TICHY for ARTISTS, TICHY Ocean Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland / Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany / Polaroid Collection, USA / Collection Luc LaRochelle, Montreal, Canada / Kunstsammlung Kanton Zug, Switzerland / Bombay Beach Biennale, California / The Brooklyn Museum, NY / LACMA , Los Angeles / Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Collection, Texas, USA

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