Marguerite Bornhauser

Marguerite Bornhauser (born 1989), is a French visual artist and photographer.

Early life and education Marguerite Bornhauser studied literature and journalism at the Sorbonne. She is the daughter of a poet father and a painter mother. In 2014, she participated in a residency at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. In 2015, she graduated from the in Arles. She regularly accompanies her photographic research with editorial work. In 2015, she published a first work in self-publication.

In 2019, Margueritte Bornhauser presented her first solo exhibition Moisson Rouge, in a French institution, at the Maison européenne de la photographie. The project mixed abstract compositions and close-ups. The uncaptioned images carry elusive meanings. The photographer said: "I often use images as words to tell stories, create fictions and particular atmospheres ". She also confronted, in the form of diptychs, images taken at different periods. The title of the book refers to the work Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, an American screenwriter and novelist, considered to be the founder of the roman noir.

Exhibitions

Red Harvest, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 5 June to 14 July 2019

Awards

2020 : London Emerging Photographer Award

Publications

Plastic Colors, Lic Edition, in association with Galerie Madé, 32p, 2017, 8, Continuation Edition, 60 pages, November 2018, Red Harvest, Marguerite Bornhauser, text by Simon Baker, Continued Edition, 32 pages, November 2019,

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