The World Within - PBF05 / Marguerite Bornhauser
21 January - 27 March 2021
Quarantine Journal is the story of Marguerite Bornhauser’s lockdown with Jeanne.
Through her lens, she reinvents everyday objects and gives them pictorial meaning. The settings are either spontaneous or carefully constructed compositions. She plays with the light as it comes in and leaves through the windows, reflecting on the walls or floor and then disappearing. Confined inside her apartment, Marguerite Bornhauser creates intimate images in harsh light. Her journal takes the form of a game where everyday life is somehow transformed into an alien world. She uses a colander to filter the light that shapes a face, plants become sensual objects, while shadows and bright colours create a world like no other.
