Marguerite Bornhauser / When Black Is Burned

When black is burned is a series somewhere between reality and fiction, poetry and everyday life, that plays with the codes of abstraction and photographic figuration to plunge us into a chiaroscuro universe, brightly coloured and populated by shadows, ghosts and daydreams. This work is made up of dense light and materials where shadows create landscapes and motifs. The burnt black of the shadows resonates with the intensity of the colours and the sensuality of the bodies. In this series, we present, for the first time, reworked negative photographs - painted or coloured - 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.

Published by Simple Editions
English

16 x 23.5 cm
216 pages
2023