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Stefanie SchneiderCircle of Magic - Lightning Strikes (29 Palms, CA)2009
2009
$500
£373.76
€431.14
CA$700
A$739.67
CHF 397.80
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NOK 4,983.92
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DKK 3,220.14
About the Item
Circle of Magic - Lightning Strikes (29 Palms, CA) - 2009,
40x48cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory #2804.
Not mounted.
To Embrace Imperfection
In Stefanie Schneider’s world, the imperfect is not an obstacle to overcome—it is the doorway itself. Her Polaroids breathe in that space between what should have been and what actually happened, a fragile terrain where chemicals misbehave, colors wander, and time stamps itself in ways no digital file would ever permit. She doesn’t chase the immaculate; she courts the unexpected. It’s here, in this shimmering half-life, that her voice emerges—raw, unvarnished, defiantly human.
Her work lives in a state between memory and evaporation, like a thought you try to hold but it keeps slipping back into the dream it came from. Every frame is a confession: that nothing lasts, that everything changes, that beauty is often born the moment control dissolves. The Polaroid film—expired, cracked, fading—becomes a partner and a witness. It carries the weight of an era that died, an era she continues to animate long after the factories went dark. By choosing this medium, she accepts its limits, its quirks, its decay; and in doing so, she reveals us to ourselves.
Because Stefanie is not merely documenting a scene—she is revealing the way life actually feels. Uncertain. Tender. A little broken around the edges. Bright in places you didn’t expect. She lives and works in a world obsessed with high-definition certainty, where smoothness is mistaken for truth and "perfection" is a myth engineered by machines. Her battle is not with technology, but with the demand that art should mimic the clinical accuracy of a lens. She pushes back by choosing risk, vulnerability, and the kind of narrative that can only be written when nothing is guaranteed.
Her images show people, but more importantly they show their silences: the pauses between breaths, the weight of longing, the loneliness of a desert morning, the courage it takes to stand inside your own story. Her characters seem to hover on the edge of something—love, loss, revelation, departure—as if the universe is holding its breath with them. And maybe it is.
Stefanie Schneider creates a world where imperfection is not an aesthetic but a truth-teller. Where damage becomes language. Where the unsaid becomes visible. And every flaw is a small doorway to a deeper kind of honesty.
This is what it means to embrace imperfection: not to celebrate the mistake, but to recognize that without it, the soul has nowhere to enter.
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:2009
- Dimensions:Height: 15.75 in (40 cm)Width: 18.9 in (48 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
- More Editions Sizes:20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Price: $380
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 59191stDibs: LU652317218822
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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