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Stefanie Schneider
This will always be my Memory (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century

2006

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Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Schneider's art was the art both characters created during the movie. Stefanie's images were also used for Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, for the end titles, for edits in between and as paintings hanging in several scenes within the movie. This piece: This will always be my Memory (Stay) - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 2259. Not mounted. The Art of Longing Nostalgia isn’t about the past. It’s about the space it leaves behind. The ache of something slipping through your fingers, the ghost of a moment that was never meant to last. Stefanie Schneider’s work doesn’t just capture that feeling—it becomes it. Her images are artifacts of impermanence, unraveling at the edges, dissolving into light and time. Faces blur, colors bleed, landscapes hover between presence and absence. What she creates is not a frozen instant, but a moment in flux—caught between remembering and forgetting, appearing and vanishing all at once. Schneider’s work does not ask to be understood; it asks to be felt. The hazy glow, the chemical mutations, the dreamy distortions—they do not document reality, they expose its fragility. Like faded postcards from a life that might have been, her images whisper stories that never fully unfold. But there’s a paradox in her fleeting visions: they are rare, yet lasting. Each print is part of a strictly limited edition, a piece of time that will never be repeated. The very nature of her process—materials that no longer exist, film that shifts with every exposure—ensures that these works are singular, unrepeatable, already slipping into history. To collect Schneider’s work is to hold onto something that was never meant to be held. It is to own a piece of transience, a fragment of longing itself. Her art doesn’t simply sit in a frame—it resonates, living in the space between memory and possibility, inviting us to look again, to remember differently, to see with new eyes. 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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