“They reinforce the randomness of life: the frisson that happens when you pass by someone you may have met in a dream; the way relationships begin and end and the way they occasionally, miraculously, work out. The skittish, disjointed nature of Schneider’s three pieces is out of our hands. She suggests that all we can do is point out this basic truth, marvel at our brain’s architecture, revel in the found beauty…We can gawk at the Polaroid’s chemical burns that resemble starbursts in the day sky in the same way we can acknowledge without understanding someone’s fleeting interest in a stranger. In other words, we can relate.

--James Scarborough, Frieze Magazine

“I never remember the details of a Stefanie Schneider image, just the
whole. She treads a third path between reality and dream that connects
the two and truly sparks my artistic, visual freedom.”
--Marc Forster, Director

“Stefanie Schneider’s color prints—blow-ups from standard Polaroids—are all-American in a troubling way. Her images read like frames from narratives we never get...Instead of a clearly delineated story, Schneider offers intimations, a suggestive lack of specificity reinforced by the prematurely aged look achieved by using long-expired Polaroid stock...You pick the sound track to play in your head. The number of possible endings to these stories is endless.”

--Christopher Miles, Artnet.com

Stefanie Schneider