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Dream girl (Stranger than Paradise) - 2000
Edition of 10
3 x 58x56 x 0.1 cm,
58 x 188 cm installed.
3 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist.
based on the 3 Polaroids.
Signature label and signature.
Artist Inventory # 304.09.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider: Fragments of a Life in Motion
Art is rarely born from comfort. For Stefanie Schneider, it began with escape—a departure from the weight of Germany’s rules and expectations, in search of something unstructured, sun-drenched, and free. California called, with its desert light and the slow exhale of San Francisco’s laissez-faire spirit. But fate intervened on a motorcycle, in a hit-and-run collision that left her with a crushed leg, a reconstructed foot, and a missing toe—a permanent trace of a past both distant and unshakable.
Recovery wasn’t just physical; it was a remapping of purpose. In the quiet spaces between pain and resilience, Schneider turned to film and communication, drawn instinctively to the fleeting and the fragile. That instinct remains at the core of her art today. Her Polaroid images, suspended between past and present, embrace imperfection as truth. The chemical distortions of expired film mirror the unpredictability of life itself—fractured yet beautiful, impermanent yet unforgettable.
Schneider’s work is a document of experience, a testament to survival, and a refusal to be confined by linear narratives. Her women, often cast in golden light and desert solitude, are figures of longing and independence, reflections of a journey shaped by both wanderlust and the ghosts of what was left behind.
Today, her photographs are sought after by collectors, museums, and galleries worldwide. They are cinematic relics of a life lived in motion, where every frame is a fragment of memory, every image a portal to a dream half-remembered.
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:2000
- Dimensions:Height: 22.84 in (58 cm)Width: 74.02 in (188 cm)Depth: 0.12 in (3 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652315782012
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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