Aileen Schretzmayer (b. 2001, NY) is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice investigates themes of relationships, girlhood, identity, and the abstraction of the body and self. Influenced by contemporary portraiture and narrative photography, she creates visual stories that dwell in the in-between—liminal spaces where memory, emotion, and presence intersect.

Her photographs often reimagine familiar environments through close cropping, spatial distortion, and formal experimentation. These compositional strategies create unexpected juxtapositions that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. In her work, nothing is fixed—what matters is what passes through: light, breath, the unspoken. To witness, for Schretzmayer, is to honor the thresholds where closeness lives.