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Stefanie SchneiderYou turn from Me (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Nude, Women2005
2005
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You turn from Me (Till Death do us Part) - 2005,
20x20cm,
Edition 1/10,
digital C-Print print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 9555.01.
Not mounted.
Mirrors in Dust: The Temporal Alchemy of Stefanie Schneider
In the heat-hazed edges of the California desert, Stefanie Schneider’s images shimmer like half-remembered dreams—fragments of a life not quite lived, or maybe lived too deeply to recount with certainty. Her world is built on the chemistry of memory: images born not from precision but from the beautiful uncertainty of expired Polaroid film. What remains on the surface is not just a photograph—it is a mirror clouded with longing, nostalgia, and the gentle erosion of time.
Schneider’s work resists the rigidity of chronology. Instead, it slips between moments, presenting narratives that are not linear but looped—mirrored reflections of lives echoing in sun-drenched motels, trailers, and empty swimming pools. Every image she creates seems to be both a beginning and an ending, holding within it the potential of a story just out of reach.
Time in Schneider’s universe is an emotional medium, not a technical one. Her expired film—a medium decaying even as it is exposed—acts as a temporal collaborator, distorting color, softening edges, and dissolving clarity. It is as though time itself participates in the telling. Her portraits and landscapes are less documents and more hauntings, appearing as if through the fogged lens of memory. The colors bleed like bruises, or like the fading echoes of something that once mattered and might again.
Mirroring plays out subtly, not only in compositional choices but in the metaphysical reflections her work invites. Characters recur, sometimes played by the same people, sometimes shifted into new roles—alter egos of themselves. The viewer becomes a participant in this mirroring, projecting personal memory onto the universal longing embedded in the images. We see ourselves not just as observers, but as counterparts—lost somewhere in a similar desert of time and feeling.
What Stefanie Schneider gives us is not nostalgia, but evidence that the past and the present can exist side by side. Her work reminds us that memory is not static; it is chemical, emotional, sometimes unstable—and always alive.
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.
“It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me to start the company THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT after seeing her work, which seems to achieve the possible from the impossible, creating the finest of art out of the most basic of mediums and materials. Indeed, after that one day, I was so impressed with her photography that I realized Polaroid film could not be allowed to disappear. Being at the precise moment in time where the world was about to lose Polaroid, I seized the moment and have put all my efforts and passion into saving Polaroid film. For that, I thank Stefanie Schneider almost exclusively, who played a bigger role than anyone in saving this American symbol of photography.”
–Florian Kaps, March 8th 2010 (“Doc” Dr. Florian Kaps, founder of “The Impossible Project”)
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:2005
- Dimensions:Height: 7.88 in (20 cm)Width: 7.88 in (20 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652316286752
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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