MARGUERITE BORNHAUSER The extensive series When Black is Burned, which comprises many diptychs, is colourful, vibrant, and enigmatic. All highly saturated colour photographs, if you can still call them that, or photo works, show intimate details of daily life. You see a face, parts of a body, plants, leaves, fishes, fences, shadows, and water. It seems like a diary of lazy Sundays and dreamy summers, introverted and meditative. The photo works have an intense aesthetic radiance, vibrating colours, and abstract compositions.
Analogue
The photos are taken with a small analogue camera. Later, they are scanned and digitally processed. Marguerite Bornhauser explains how the project came into being. “When Black is Burned is a project mainly about shadows and contrast and turning daily life into an enigmatic world. As you can…
