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Stefanie Schneider
The Farmer's Wife's Loneliness (American Depression)

2004

$700
£529.11
€608.05
CA$974.75
A$1,084.36
CHF 568.44
MX$13,250.67
NOK 7,238.34
SEK 6,813.90
DKK 4,538.83
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The Farmer's Wife's Loneliness (American Depression) - 2004 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Prints based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory 610. Not mounted. featuring Radha Mitchell. The works of Stefanie Schneider evoke Ed Ruscha's obsession with the American experience, the richness of Georgia O'Keefe's deserts and the loneliness of Edward Hopper's haunting paintings. So how exactly did this German photographer become one of the most important artists of the American narrative of the 20th and 21st century? Stefanie Schneider was born and raised in Germany but lives and works in Southern California. Exploring the American dream and capturing it with Polaroid instant film. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambiance for loosely woven storylines and a cast of phantasmic characters that reflect a part of the narrator's life told from her perspective. Often about love, communication. sexuality and relationships. Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction yet they also explore the relationship with the medium and the viewer. The wabi-sabi 'ness' of Schneider's work can not be denied or ignored. It's a step of acceptance of 'flaws', gaps and distortions. Missing pieces of the puzzle. The artist flaunts, uses and exposes the unknown using expired Polaroid instant film intentionally. Presents it. What you do with that is up to you. That missing part of the picture is for you to include yourself, you fill it in with yourself. That might be critical that it's there at all, missing and missing the entire point altogether or by filling in the unknown with their imagination. Even their memories which then integrate the viewer and artist as one with limitless potential.
  • Creator:
    Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
  • Creation Year:
    2004
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)Width: 19.3 in (49 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    50x49cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist ProofsPrice: $700
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  • Gallery Location:
    Morongo Valley, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU652314472522

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