EXHIBITION
>> June | 2013
The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris
Untitled, 2013, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, 40x50cm
Stefanie Schneider aime jouer avec les hasards qu’offrent les pellicules Polaroid périmées, dont les réactions chimiques sont imprévisibles. Les aberrations chromatiques et les halos fantomatiques qui résultent de leur instabilité se superposent de façon aléatoire aux mises en scène que l’artiste compose avec soin. Ils don-nent à ses clichés la texture incertaine des rêves et des souvenirs qui s’effacent. Stefanie Schneider s’est ainsi peu à peu forgé un univers qui évoque tout autant les road-movies que les séries B, Jack Kerouac que David Lynch, avec son mobil-home rutilant posé dans l’immensité désertique, ses chemins qui ne mènent nulle part, ses personnages échoués, tiraillés entre amour et désillusion, érotisme et solitude, désirs et vacuité.
“The Girl behind the white Picket Fence” met en scène une jeune femme meurtrie par un fiasco sentimental, qui prend conscience de son attirance pour l’éboueur qu’elle aperçoit par la fenêtre de son mobil home. Il lui faudra, pour l’accepter, surmonter ses démons intérieurs, grâce à l’aide d’un animateur radio et d’un étrange chaman.
Chacune des photographies exposées fait partie intégrante du film et est traversée par son histoire.
Informations pratiques: Vernissage 12 juin 2013 de 17h à 20h, Exposition du 13 juin au 20 juillet 2013 { Galerie Catherine et André Hug, 2, rue de l’échaudé / 40, rue de Seine, 75006 Paris } Horaires mardi au samedi de 11h00 à 13h00 14h30 à 19h00 | Contact: Catherine Hug -Telephone 06.07.13.48.00 et sur rendez vous! | E-mail c.hug@orange.fr | Site www.galeriehug.com
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FILM
>> May | 2013
Heather's Dream
has been selected for the
German Competition in the
International Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen in May 2013
Screening at the Lichtburg, Sunday, May 5th, 12.30pm
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Tanja Trittmann (Writer) and Caroline Haertel (Producer)
"Heather's Dream" has been accepted in the competition at the Short Film Festival Oberhausen in May 2013!
Heather (Heather Megan Christie) lies on her bed and narrates off screen: "One morning I didn´t wake up. I had a fever". And then finds herself in a dazzling desert landscape. Here a magic doctor (Udo Kier) pursues his work in his office. Something is going on. Everything seems to be prepared. The atmosphere in his office, open to all directions is hypnotic. The patient is waiting for her mysterious treatment. Dried up plants are sitting on the table. A flip book, a suitcase, a broken heart.... Enchanted examinations begin. The bizarre, charismatic doctor continues his evaluation assisted by a fairy-like nurse (Camille Waldorf). The process follows a secret logic and Heather understands that there is hope to be healed. Heather's Dream has not been filmed in a classical way but Udo Kier's and Heather Megan Christie's acting has been photographed action by action, step by step with thousands of Polaroids and edited into sequence, combined with Super-8 footage. The bright light of California, the forsaken abandoned landscapes around 29 Palms and the faded colors of the Polaroid film contribute to the poetic and surreal atmosphere of he film.
cast: Udo Kier, Heather Megan Christie, Camille Waldorf, music: Adam Weiss, script: Tanja Trittmann, directed, photographed and edited by Stefanie Schneider, production micafilm, Berlin, co-produced by Arte, supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
www.heatherdreams.com
>> April | 2013
Multimedia Presentation with Artist Stefanie Schneider follows CAC Annual Meeting
Palms Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater, 101 Museum Drive ( April 11th, 10.30 am )
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Untitled, Edition of 5, 125x250cm, 2013
The Contemporary Art Council invites you and your guests to a season finale — a surreal presentation by multimedia artist Stefanie Schneider.
Schneider works in photography and video on the High Desert landscape. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven storylines and a cast of phantasmic characters. She works with the largely uncontrollable chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine Schneider’s commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Like flicker-ing sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made — their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality; they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction.
