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Carrie Schneider: How Not to Fall

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The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past year. The artist appears in these works via multiple personas, reaching out to a wondrous natural world or searching for its mythological bedrock; her costumes are key, functioning either as conduits or points of disjunction. In a pair of photographs, an island queen wears fantastic headdresses made of lichens or juniper boughs — traditional Finnish wedding crowns recreated from the forest's own flesh. Schneider's enigmatic films introduce a narrative element, blending whismy and melancholy as two women each have fleeting, mystical experiences on a rocky coastline.

- Karsten Lund
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