https://palomaschnitzer.com Paloma Schnitzer Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:24:10 +0000 https://palomaschnitzer.com en https://palomaschnitzer.com/Paloma-Schnitzer Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:10:30 +0000 Paloma Schnitzer https://palomaschnitzer.com/Paloma-Schnitzer https://palomaschnitzer.com/Memorias Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:26:11 +0000 Paloma Schnitzer https://palomaschnitzer.com/Memorias [Memorias]&nbsp;is an audiovisual self-portrait that revolves around the question of how to narrate one's own history. Based on sound recordings of dreams and personal archive footage collected over the years, the story moves with the rhythm of confused memories and the pulse of someone who seems to speak as she thinks. With the gesture of erasing, replacing, and recovering remembrances, mixtures of textures reveal the pass of time and recurring topics inform about certain obsessions. Like a disoriented detective, the protagonist embarks on the journey of examining the images of her own life through the lens of dreams which, in their repetition and silences, infuse them with new erratic meanings. (In production) 2022 - Present <img width="3558" height="1946" width_o="3558" height_o="1946" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa637b4a10c1cbc0ee5714e612b2b7e06211ea458883d4f54770166887f32128/6.png" data-mid="204966957" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa637b4a10c1cbc0ee5714e612b2b7e06211ea458883d4f54770166887f32128/6.png" /> <img width="3584" height="2240" width_o="3584" height_o="2240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d5c030db657e78d3483e250808ebe71b4451e6452752e8cc705292119303fa4/4.png" data-mid="204966955" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d5c030db657e78d3483e250808ebe71b4451e6452752e8cc705292119303fa4/4.png" /> <img width="3584" height="2240" width_o="3584" height_o="2240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/381a97a5cb283fc944be0862cb85686317d2d31c6ba46b4dc5e56a65b3a02c7a/2.png" data-mid="204966953" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/381a97a5cb283fc944be0862cb85686317d2d31c6ba46b4dc5e56a65b3a02c7a/2.png" /> Memorias, video stills.&nbsp; https://palomaschnitzer.com/surplus Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:24:10 +0000 Paloma Schnitzer https://palomaschnitzer.com/surplus [Surplus] is an essay film that reflects on how inherited visual and narrative codes shape our perception of contemporary images, particularly those depicting the ongoing live-transmitted massacres. Examining mainstream film material, the work interrogates how the language of spectacle shapes the ways we see, and how it organizes the narrative into a structure that leaves the audience trapped within a conflict-driven scenario. By moving the gaze towards the background, bodies without given names and gestures without apparent weight speak with the text to think of film as an art of presentations rather than re-presentations. <img width="3584" height="2240" width_o="3584" height_o="2240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ff9f24af8e6d4b84fef999677f4105c770dbe8903ec0df93b7c649ff5aedeab/on-Conflict.png" data-mid="235101455" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ff9f24af8e6d4b84fef999677f4105c770dbe8903ec0df93b7c649ff5aedeab/on-Conflict.png" /> 12 min - Color - HD - 2025&nbsp; https://palomaschnitzer.com/To-Twist-The-Course-Of-Signs Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:06:14 +0000 Paloma Schnitzer https://palomaschnitzer.com/To-Twist-The-Course-Of-Signs [To Twist the Course of Signs] interweaves archival images, surveillance footage, and language into a layered system, an oracle awaiting contact. <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ca5f7c7a0414b6d9bc953511a4206dbe835a86d913db6e7c25804540a4a14e4/12d45029-0dbb-4d67-bf2d-0b964430a084.jpg" data-mid="236995044" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ca5f7c7a0414b6d9bc953511a4206dbe835a86d913db6e7c25804540a4a14e4/12d45029-0dbb-4d67-bf2d-0b964430a084.jpg" /> While a spinning sphere turns, gestures of control and transmission ripple outward, connecting ancient symbols with machines, and satellites with vapor. The ancient hieroglyph of the “ka”, symbol of eternal wandering. A hand, the part of the body that has the function of making, receiving, or manipulating. Arms on the keyboard, as the gesture of controlling a machine; searching, sending, spying, moving, erasing, activating other machines. Repetition and circular motion translate into the casting of a spell, to twist the existing course of the flow of information, becoming the key to a secret code. <img width="2498" height="598" width_o="2498" height_o="598" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6951118f155f9023b8187938572b6b2a33b5ffd0cd746229e6c6f4fe4eb6288/TTTCOS-PalomaSchnitzer-4.png" data-mid="204958234" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6951118f155f9023b8187938572b6b2a33b5ffd0cd746229e6c6f4fe4eb6288/TTTCOS-PalomaSchnitzer-4.png" /> <img width="2484" height="600" width_o="2484" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/124e1edffbda091996e1a019d9b99982290f260b7af94e56bc1736109e4ddd2e/TTTCOS-PalomaSchnitzer-5.png" data-mid="204958235" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/124e1edffbda091996e1a019d9b99982290f260b7af94e56bc1736109e4ddd2e/TTTCOS-PalomaSchnitzer-5.png" /> <img width="2478" height="564" width_o="2478" height_o="564" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c45ed286005334f1c42a525cbb6202c5a31bccb50ad6560fce854c899a3e9e31/TTTCOS-PalomaSchnitzer-6.png" data-mid="204958236" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c45ed286005334f1c42a525cbb6202c5a31bccb50ad6560fce854c899a3e9e31/TTTCOS-PalomaSchnitzer-6.png" /> <img width="2506" height="618" width_o="2506" height_o="618" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6c9eef4f60e9ccfc7f8be11070481c9e84c898f089c1d2a4bad5a4e9fa14598/TTTCOS-PalomaSchnitzer-3.png" data-mid="204958233" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6c9eef4f60e9ccfc7f8be11070481c9e84c898f089c1d2a4bad5a4e9fa14598/TTTCOS-PalomaSchnitzer-3.png" /> 3-channel video installation No sound - Color 20 min 2023-2025 Shown at "Autonoma Industriale", Atelier (Berlin), "Along the Archive, Against the Grain", at After the Butcher and "After Projection", at Halfsister (Berlin) https://palomaschnitzer.com/Critical-Masturbation Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:46:36 +0000 Paloma Schnitzer https://palomaschnitzer.com/Critical-Masturbation [Critical M] is a audiovisual exploration of erotism, focusing on the historical role of FLINTA* bodies as objects of desire, and how these narratives continue to shape experiences in the present. Intimate testimonies unfold alongside experiments with erotic imagery to navigate the chaos of feeling. Far from offering fixed answers, the work centers on the tension between critically interrogating pre-structured desires and exploring ways to expand our capacity for pleasure, asking whether desire can be reclaimed from the very forces that have shaped it. Presented as a 7-channel audio-visual installation, the work opens the possibility of privately listening to a testimony, while encountering the images of other boides, intertwining stories and sensations. 7-channel video installation Sound / LoopVariable Durations <img width="1554" height="1094" width_o="1554" height_o="1094" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c5c2c9562aa0d5ae52411bbec7396eac66b24146c05c1f97c29f8bf598c44d4/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-2.png" data-mid="204967993" border="0" data-scale="27" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c5c2c9562aa0d5ae52411bbec7396eac66b24146c05c1f97c29f8bf598c44d4/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-2.png" /><img width="1570" height="1116" width_o="1570" height_o="1116" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/051240003b7fac9fa8209eeb934e7b268f96dd62b047e9d7ff96230e11203778/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-11.png" data-mid="204968001" border="0" data-scale="27" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/051240003b7fac9fa8209eeb934e7b268f96dd62b047e9d7ff96230e11203778/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-11.png" /> <img width="1566" height="1110" width_o="1566" height_o="1110" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5c51abfd5b2911c04acde764253cbc8212de95cd09385e0283c3381e98b417d/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-10.png" data-mid="204968000" border="0" data-scale="27" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5c51abfd5b2911c04acde764253cbc8212de95cd09385e0283c3381e98b417d/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-10.png" /><img width="1572" height="1112" width_o="1572" height_o="1112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f68f04b31b4fff2d7d60e180300fb8329181d06376581d0ea9ff03f8e18fd9f3/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-7.png" data-mid="204967998" border="0" data-scale="27" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f68f04b31b4fff2d7d60e180300fb8329181d06376581d0ea9ff03f8e18fd9f3/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-7.png" /> <img width="1520" height="1082" width_o="1520" height_o="1082" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fe21ce37943c4965926ba0bc9fa764cf4d33058b1d344f05c3e8d0ee3fca92f/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-17.png" data-mid="204968277" border="0" data-scale="27" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6fe21ce37943c4965926ba0bc9fa764cf4d33058b1d344f05c3e8d0ee3fca92f/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-17.png" /><img width="1574" height="1108" width_o="1574" height_o="1108" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9d716426423833bf4e5459b4817338faa96b4817cf1a473451f98a1a4187b09/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-14.png" data-mid="204968004" border="0" data-scale="27" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9d716426423833bf4e5459b4817338faa96b4817cf1a473451f98a1a4187b09/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-14.png" /> <img width="1574" height="1120" width_o="1574" height_o="1120" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd408a0dcc3109e6f9c6ed26295a04e4350777fe7514980e8be1a8fafd13f781/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-12.png" data-mid="204968002" border="0" data-scale="27" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd408a0dcc3109e6f9c6ed26295a04e4350777fe7514980e8be1a8fafd13f781/crit-mas---Paloma-Schnitzer-12.png" /> Critical M, video stills.&nbsp; https://palomaschnitzer.com/Fluid-Friction Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:47:04 +0000 Paloma Schnitzer https://palomaschnitzer.com/Fluid-Friction [Fluid Friction]&nbsp;is part of a series of translucent impressions unveiling private affairs. This&nbsp; edition wanders around the universe of submission as a source of pleasure, and spit as a viscous thread.&nbsp; Presented as a sculptural book, the piece invites an intimate encounter through the layered transparencies that overlap, fold and wrap around themselves to create shifting depths of image. By turning its pages, the subtle metallic echoes and the tactility of the materials transform the act of reading an image into a sensuous exploration. ---- Prints on transparent paper, leather, screws, nuts, metal rings and hook.Book: 42cm x 30cm x 3cm&nbsp; Leash: 2m 2023 <img width="2802" height="4054" width_o="2802" height_o="4054" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65dad6c956cea0a8e3982aa3b37f19dc9688db0936b91bb0c04e07487e1e773d/DSCF1305crop.jpg" data-mid="204962710" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65dad6c956cea0a8e3982aa3b37f19dc9688db0936b91bb0c04e07487e1e773d/DSCF1305crop.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a187d35aaedfba85050dc394f92c9c2cc9b90e7090ff79965d8ffb0d2aef0b9/DSCF5801.jpg" data-mid="204960351" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a187d35aaedfba85050dc394f92c9c2cc9b90e7090ff79965d8ffb0d2aef0b9/DSCF5801.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f889a12876d0f745d1408ddb1197c7828bcc10fb4e5cffbf6561896cb4454ae3/DSCF5847.jpg" data-mid="204960352" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f889a12876d0f745d1408ddb1197c7828bcc10fb4e5cffbf6561896cb4454ae3/DSCF5847.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74be8ee45fc1aede84bdcb63101aac14f7a48e73e5858f045353660dc08c0b1d/DSCF5850.jpg" data-mid="204960353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74be8ee45fc1aede84bdcb63101aac14f7a48e73e5858f045353660dc08c0b1d/DSCF5850.jpg" /> Fluid Friction, installation view at "Too much is never enough", Scherben Galerie (Berlin).&nbsp; https://palomaschnitzer.com/Broken-Memory Mon, 05 May 2025 09:10:29 +0000 Paloma Schnitzer https://palomaschnitzer.com/Broken-Memory [Broken Memory] is an audiovisual interpretation of the ruins of Anhalter Bahnof, a fragment of a train station porticus located in Berlin, Germany, that sustains the remains of a history with selective memorials and stories displaced by their own shadows. Layers of absence build upon one another. If the past is so obscured, how can anything emerge from it without collapsing into the same silence? <img width="1680" height="1050" width_o="1680" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/965493669b9203abc44f4caa8d7f12124cb7ca1a83e488af1a5a442cc0deed92/Paloma-Schnitzer---Broken-memory---still1.png" data-mid="232794291" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/965493669b9203abc44f4caa8d7f12124cb7ca1a83e488af1a5a442cc0deed92/Paloma-Schnitzer---Broken-memory---still1.png" /> Broken Memory - video still 1-channel video Sound - Color 4:19 minJuly 2023 https://palomaschnitzer.com/Humans-Targeting-Humans Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:37:16 +0000 Paloma Schnitzer https://palomaschnitzer.com/Humans-Targeting-Humans [Humans Targeting Humans]&nbsp; Cameras point at us to control us, images point at us to sell us something, and databases point at the images that we dump into the world to classify us into types of consumers. But if "the power" doesn't consider us good targets of consumption, those that aim at us are the sights of the guns. Humans Targeting Humans points out how the system turns us into targets in one way or the other, while attempting to invert it: what happens when we are the ones targeting the devices instead of them at us? One channel A/V installation1 min - Loop Sound 2022 https://palomaschnitzer.com/Destroying-the-Scene Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:38:34 +0000 Paloma Schnitzer https://palomaschnitzer.com/Destroying-the-Scene [Destroying the Scene]&nbsp; Destroying the scene is a research project based on a single image taken from a surveillance camera recording. Sourced from a collection of security camera footage, this particular image, taken in an internet café in India in 2016, serves as a case to study ways to deal with bodies that are recorded in the context of control. How can we use such images without repeating the control mechanism of those who produce them? How can the surveilled body be brought back to the scene without being re-opressed / re-exposed? The idea of destroying the scene emerges as a gesture of hiding the clues through a process of fragmentation and enlargement. Traces of diffusion, superimposition, breakage, and distortion appear, resulting in the following works: [Triptych Diffuse] [Destroying the scene - Book] [I’m Hacked] https://palomaschnitzer.com/Triptych-diffuse Tue, 18 May 2021 15:45:05 +0000 Paloma Schnitzer https://palomaschnitzer.com/Triptych-diffuse [Triptych Diffuse]&nbsp;is part of a research project [Destroying the Scene]. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2963bafc5699d64857788aaf0f53aadd655508823380b07fd1ff6d66a3f1a0d1/superpositions-02.jpg" data-mid="139589723" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2963bafc5699d64857788aaf0f53aadd655508823380b07fd1ff6d66a3f1a0d1/superpositions-02.jpg" /> Prints on acetate, screws, nuts. 29.7 x 21 cm (each) 2021 &nbsp;