Marguerite Bornhauser - When Black is Burned

Marguerite Bornhauser
When Black is Burned

Published by Simple Editions, 2023
Size: 16 x 23.5 cm
216 Pages
Hardcover
Limited Edition of 600 copies.
Languages: English
( last copy available, slightly damaged )

When Black Is Burned is a series between reality and fiction, poetry and everyday life, which plays with the codes of abstraction and photographic figuration to immerse us in a chiaroscuro universe, with bright colors, populated by shadows, ghosts, and waking dreams. This work is made of light and dense materials 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 film 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.

- Editor's text