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Stefanie Schneider
Malina (Stranger than Paradise)

1997

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Malina (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 43x59cm, Edition of 1/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #139.01. Not mounted. Stranger Than Paradise isn’t just a project — it’s a parallel world, faded like memory and burnished by desert sun. In Stefanie Schneider’s hands, the Polaroid becomes both a portal and a relic. Shot in the California desert with expired film, the images shimmer with imperfection: light leaks, chemical distortions, spectral colors. Yet within the flaws lies the truth — of longing, of impermanence, of a dream half-remembered. This monograph, first published by Hatje Cantz in 2006, is a cinematic road trip through emotional and geographical terrain. Its characters — lovers, loners, drifters — pause in motel rooms, wander through barren landscapes, or stretch across beds like stills from a movie that may never exist. They’re not posed but caught — in transition, in reverie, in silence. The work evokes a lineage: the eeriness of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, the painted desolation of Edward Hopper, the mythic silence of Georgia O’Keeffe’s desert, and Ed Ruscha’s highways of the American psyche. But Schneider’s vision is singular: a German artist translating the American West not as a place, but as a condition — of exile, desire, escape. What makes Stranger Than Paradise enduring isn’t nostalgia. It’s the way it wrestles with time itself. These images don't just document — they haunt. They hold the ache of stories we almost lived. Of homes we dreamed but never found. 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.

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