Exhibition
Stéphanie Schneider
An ode to Polaroid

The End, 2005 © Sophie Schneider

Daisy in front of trailer, 2/5, 2005 © Sophie Schneider

A vision you can't capture III, 3/5 © Sophie Schneider

Circle of magic, 1/3, 2009 © Sophie Schneider

Salton Babtistes, 2/5, 2010 © Sophie Schneider

The muse, 1/3, 2009 © Sophie Schneider

Romina’s wedding day, 1/3, 2009 © Sophie Schneider
For her photography series Stefanie Schneider exclusively uses expired Polaroid film in which the chemicals react in an unpredictable manner provoking chromatic aberrations, holes and haloes that carefully rest over the motifs like a second reality. Using Polaroid, perfectly adapted to capture an image instantaneously, Stefanie Schneider gives her images dazzling effects, obtains blurry images and orchestrates chance. Stefanie Schneider paints with Polaroid film and evokes the ambivalence between imagination and interpretation, fiction and reality and leaves the viewer in charge of constructing his own image and placing it in a real or unreal sitting. The desert motif nourishes a dichotomy between reality and imagination constantly at odds with the notion of a chronological time and characters who evolve in a lost world…
Through July 30
Galerie Catherine et André Hug
40, rue de Seine
75006 Paris
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