When Black Is Burned is a series between reality and fiction, poetry and everyday life, that plays with the codes of abstraction and photographic figuration to plunge us into a brightly colored chiaroscuro universe, populated by shadows, ghosts and daydreams. This work is made of light and dense matter, where shadows create landscapes and patterns. The burnt black of the shadows resonates with the intensity of the colors and the sensuality of the bodies. In this series, we present for the first time reworked negative photographs – painted or colored – alongside silver and digital photographs of all kinds.

The book is accompanied by an original text by Damarice Amao, an art historian currently working at the Centre Pompidou-Paris.

Marguerite Bornhauser exhibited "Back to dust" series at the Musée Arles Antique as part of the 54th Rencontres d'Arles. Bigtime.Studio, also represented by FMA Le Bureau, is in charge of the scenography. The photographer explored the archaeological digs at La Verrerie in Arles, diving us into a cosmic universe where archaeological fragments become stardust, like a return to infinity in an explosion of materials and colors. 

"The series highlights the urgency of climate change through the use of abstract negative scans. By using the end and beginning of the film roll, it evokes our confrontation with time, from the beginning of the world to the programmed and accelerated end of it Once printed on paper, these colored spectra mix with glass plates hand-painted by the artist. The drips in cold or warm tones thus seem to reveal the vagaries of our current events. from intense heat with red and orange tones to sharp cold with blue and purple tones Melting ice, intense drought, torrential storms, are all patterns that everyone can glimpse in these mirrors of a contemporary world made of. increasingly marked contrasts.
Camille Merklen, Galerie Porte B

March 2020.
Here we are confined between four walls with the only light coming from the window. Reinventing the objects that surround us and making them pictorial, diverting them, between fortuitous scenes and constructed scenes. Playing with the light which every day passes through the windows, emerges, bounces off the walls, the parquet floor, on the skins, then goes out.
 Immersed in the closed doors of this apartment, the images are intimate, with tight framing and harsh lighting. The trivial is transformed into a strange field of contradictory materials, the strainer serves as a light filter to sculpt a face, the plants become sensual materials, cast shadows and touches of color to constitute an original world.

The Red Harvest series, specially designed for an exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, is a nod to the book Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, pioneer of the American noir novel. The artist presents a selection of photos from her production which, through new visual associations, seem to be the starting point of an enigmatic story. These images set a scene where the torpor of summer skies, indolent bodies and the play of light is suddenly interrupted by the breaking of a glass or a splash - all clues that something has just happened. Marguerite Bornhauser's work combines accidental scenes and carefully constructed compositions, thus blurring the lines between reality and fiction. By refusing to caption her photos and place them in their shooting context, the artist makes each image the origin of a deliberately subjective story. Her photographic language, marked by intense colors, relentless shadows and close-ups, offers a free interpretation of reality.

In 1960, some time after the publication of Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan settled down on the Normandy coast. She rents the Manoir du Breuil from July 8 to August 8 located a few kilometers from Deauville, in the company of two friends. On the evening of August 7, they went to the Deauville Casino. At dawn, after playing the 8 all night, Françoise Sagan emerges rich with 80,000 francs. When she returns to the mansion it is 8 a.m., she has to take inventory with the owner. Tired, she asks if, by chance, the house might not be for sale. He answers yes, 80,000 francs. She takes the winnings out of her bag and hands them to the slightly stunned man. This is how she acquired the mansion that she would keep for the rest of her life. The series "8" by Marguerite Bornhauser echoes this story. A free interpretation, a visual rehabilitation combining the Casino and the games, Deauville and its luxury hotels, its passing residents, its nightlife and the number 8.