Marguerite Bornhauser
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Marguerite Bornhauser is a photographer based in Paris. After studying literature and journalism, she joined the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, where she graduated. Since her first personal institutional exhibition held at the Maison Européenne de la photographie (MEP) in 2019, her work has been exhibited in different museums, galleries and festivals worldwide. In 2020, she won the Photo London's Emerging Photographer of the Year Award. In 2021, the Grand Palais gave her a carte blanche to look at the renovation site for the next four years, which will be the subject of a book as well as an exhibition. In 2022 she was nominated as guest of honor for Paris Photo. She published various books : 'Plastic Colors' (2017), '8', and 'Red Harvest' by Poursuite Editions (2019), and 'When Black is burned' (2023) with Simple Editions. In 2024, Marguerite's work has been shown in Arco (Lisbonne and Madrid), at the Galerie Porte B., the MEP and the Galerie Sinople in Paris. She was part of Les Rencontres d'Arles in July at the Arles Antique Musuem, with her residency with INRAP. Besides her institutional practice, she regularly collaborates for medias and brands for portraits and fashion photography.
Mirages - Carte blanche - Crédit Mutuel
Marguerite Bornhauser has been invited to a carte blanche residency by the Crédit Mutuel, who entrusted her to promote, through her artistic sensitivity, the company's vision of the future. She has designed a digital fresco associating images and ideas with her unique visual language, where shapes and colors are an invitation to experience both poetic and dynamic emotions.
N°5, Film - Chanel
Fermé pour travaux - Grand Palais RMN - Carte Blanche - Fondation Louis Roederer
Photograms made from objects collected at the Grand Palais throughout the evolution of the construction site (2021-2024)
The photogram is a photographic image obtained in a film laboratory without using a camera, by placing objects on a photosensitive surface (photo paper or film) and then exposing it directly to light. Marguerite Bornhauser works here - on the occasion of her carte blanche at the Grand Palais on the evolution of the building under construction - the color photogram by making chromatic variations and experimenting with various techniques for adding color using filters or other tests plastics.
During her various wanderings on the construction site, Marguerite Bornhauser collects objects found on the ground or hidden here and there: bolts, padlocks, undefined objects, signs, papers - relics of a construction site in full evolution which she preserves and sorts by dates and places of discoveries. She then isolates some of the objects found to create photograms which, through their variations in color and light, transport the object found on the construction site to a completely different dimension.
Nina Ricci
Haider Ackerman
Formula 1 - Tag Heuer
