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Stefanie Schneider
Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA)
2008

Name: Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA)
Brand: Stefanie Schneider
Rating: 4.9 (38 reviews)

$4,000

£3,024.37

€3,540.89

CA$5,691.01

A$5,788.79

CHF 3,322.18

MX$69,588.09

NOK 38,753.06

SEK 39,117.89

DKK 26,471.37

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Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA) - 2008 125x154cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, artist inventory number: 3648.02. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted This piece is also available mounted as an installation included would be the text on the wall, the movie & song by Camille Waldorf - Edition 1/5. 29 PALMS, CA is not a place. It is a state of consciousness. For more than two decades, Stefanie Schneider has returned to this fictional landscape, allowing it to grow organically into one of the most expansive narrative bodies of work in contemporary photography. What began as a series of Polaroids evolved into an ever-expanding universe of photographs, films, installations, books, and recurring characters—each chapter opening another pathway into the same elusive reality. Set against the vast silence of the Californian desert, *29 PALMS, CA* explores the fragile space between longing and freedom. Here, the American Dream has dissolved into something quieter and more intimate. Motels, empty roads, abandoned houses, endless skies, and drifting figures become stages for stories that never fully reveal themselves. They invite us to imagine what came before—and what might happen next. Working with expired Polaroid film, Schneider transforms the medium's chemical instability into an essential narrative voice. The shifting colors, fractured emulsions, and unpredictable imperfections mirror the emotional lives of her characters. Time is never fixed. Memory is unreliable. Reality continuously slips into fiction. The inhabitants of *29 PALMS, CA* are neither actors nor portraits. They exist somewhere between autobiography and invention, carrying fragments of desire, vulnerability, melancholy, and hope. They return across decades, aging with the project while remaining suspended in its timeless atmosphere. Rather than documenting the desert, Schneider has invented one. A parallel world where every photograph is both a complete work and a single frame from an endless film. Visitors are not asked to interpret the images, but to enter them—to wander through a cinematic landscape where stories unfold without resolution and every encounter becomes part of an ongoing narrative. *29 PALMS, CA* is less an archive than a living mythology: a place that exists nowhere on the map, yet feels strangely familiar to everyone who enters it.

Creator:
Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
Creation Year:
2008
Dimensions:
Height: 49.22 in (125 cm)Width: 60.63 in (154 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
More Editions & Sizes:
Complete InstallationPrice: $18,000
Medium:
Metal,Video,Archival Paper,Photographic Paper,C Print,Polaroid
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2000-2009
Framing:
Framing Options Available
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Morongo Valley, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU652315424132

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