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Stefanie SchneiderA Million Pieces (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid2005
2005
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A Million Pieces (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #9336.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider: Fragments of a Fading Dream
The American Dream was always part fiction, a mirage shimmering on the horizon. Stefanie Schneider doesn’t chase it—she captures its slow disintegration, frame by frame, letting time and chemistry tell the truth. Her work isn’t just about memory; it’s about what happens when memory outlasts the thing it was meant to preserve.
The California in Schneider’s images is not the golden land of manifest destiny, but its aftermath. Her Polaroids, eroded by time and chance, reflect a country where the paint is peeling, the highways are empty, and yesterday’s promises are fading like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers—aren’t moving forward, they’re suspended, caught in the residue of something that once felt endless. Like America itself, they exist in a space between possibility and ruin, between the dream and the waking.
Her use of expired Polaroid film is no accident. The distortions, the chemical burns, the way the colors run and dissolve—these aren’t embellishments; they are the medium telling its own story. Just as the dream is breaking down, so is the film that captures it. In Schneider’s work, image and idea collapse together, one mirroring the other. The faded hues aren’t just aesthetic; they’re an echo of something lost.
And yet, for all its decay, her world is not cynical. There is tenderness in the unraveling, poetry in the imperfections. The American Dream may be fraying at the edges, but there’s still beauty in the pieces that remain. Maybe, Schneider suggests, the dream was never meant to last—but in its flickering afterglow, there is something raw, something real, something worth holding onto.
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.
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:2005
- Dimensions:Height: 7.88 in (20 cm)Width: 9.45 in (24 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652317285052
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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