NEW WORK: “HELD LIGHT – ITALY”
We arrived in Tel Aviv in the early hours of October 7, 2023, and awoke to sirens directing us to shelter as the war began. In those first days, we did not know whether we were safe; day and night were marked by the sounds of interceptions overhead, rendering the experience surreal and disorienting. We were able to leave a day early, carrying with us the weight of uncertainty and sorrow for the lives irrevocably altered. Held Light brings together works made in Venice and Florence in the days that followed. . .
“Schneider shoots with the ghosts of Brigman, Steichen, Stieglitz, and other members of the Photo Secession standing by her side, lending her work a timeless, beguiling air of memory. For Schneider, time itself is her demeanor . . . Building a bridge into this digital age, Schneider unabashedly flaunts her camera vision, informing it with a printmaker’s devices and a painter’s disregard for rules.” –– Rick Wester