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s Dream (Days of Heaven) - 3 pieces2005
2005
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'Renée's Dream' (Days of Heaven) - 2005
part of the 29 Palms, CA project
3 pieces
18x22cm each
Edition 15/100.
3 Archival C-Prints, based on the 3 original Polaroids.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory 8081, 8084, 8080.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider doesn’t photograph time — she lets it leak.
Her images seep like light through torn fabric, refusing the neatness of chronology or memory. What we’re left with is not documentation, but fallout — the psychic residue of a world once lived, still echoing. The Polaroids are not just visuals; they’re afterimages of emotional events, distorted not by mishandling but by remembrance itself.
Most photography arrests time. Schneider seduces it — lets it stumble, crack, loop back on itself like heat waves off asphalt. Her expired film, far from a gimmick, is an accomplice in this dance with entropy. The chemical bleeds, the chromatic decay, the frayed emulsion — these aren’t flaws. They are collaborations with loss. And loss, in Schneider’s universe, isn’t always tragic. It’s how we touch what’s already gone.
She doesn’t shoot nostalgia. She shoots the hangover of it — when everything golden turns ghostly, when we realize the past has been performing itself inside us all along. Her landscapes of the American West are less about place and more about psychic terrain — vast, mythic, broken. Characters drift through these dreamscapes like echoes trying to remember the body they belonged to. Motels, deserts, trailers… they’re not backdrops, they’re altars — memorials to moments that maybe never fully happened.
And what makes her work radical today — in a culture obsessed with clarity, high-resolution perfection, and algorithmic memory — is that it remains defiantly unresolved. These are not stories with conclusions. They’re loops, glitches, time signatures scrawled in dust. Each photograph is less an image than a portal: a hallucination built from the unstable particles of longing.
Schneider’s desert is not a retreat. It’s a lab. A crucible where old time burns off and something stranger takes shape — a kind of memory with no original. Art here becomes survival, a rewriting of chronology into emotion. And in this hyper-local, hand-built world, isolation becomes autonomy — the rarest form of freedom: the ability to author your own mythology without interruption.
To experience her work is not to remember — it’s to misremember beautifully.
To confuse dream and event until the difference collapses entirely.
Until all that remains is the soft thrum of meaning — just beneath the chemical surface.
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:2005
- Dimensions:Height: 21.26 in (54 cm)Width: 8.67 in (22 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652316094512
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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