For Marguerite Bornhauser, color is not merely the subject or focus of her work, but a way of perceiving, revisiting, and representing the world. Throughout her various projects, she follows a process of selecting, isolating, and amplifying color, thus highlighting the chromatic potential of her images. Bornhauser pays particular attention to the possibilities offered by the juxtaposition and sequencing of images and the way they occupy space. Her use of diptychs—whether her photographs are joined at the fold, as in editorial works, or hung in large format on the walls of exhibition spaces—has become an essential dimension of her practice. This approach reminds us how color can resonate not only from one image to another, but also from one place or moment to another. In *Return to Dust*, Marguerite Bornhauser continues her exploration of color and texture, with a new focus on climate change and the impact of temperature variations on our planet. She experiments with different media and supports, including analog photography and glass painting, to create a series of unique photographs that capture the beauty and fragility of our natural environment. Each image is a testament to the artist's keen eye and her ability to see our contemporary world in a way that is both vivid and raw, yet always imbued with a poetic vision of the everyday.

A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles in 2015, her work has since been featured in several exhibitions, including her first solo institutional exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (2019) and a solo show at the Musée Arles Antique for the Rencontres de la Photographie (2023). In 2020, she won the Emerging Photographer of the Year award at Photo London, and in 2021, she was awarded a Carte Blanche residency at the Grand Palais. In 2022, she was selected as the guest of honor at Paris Photo. Her work has entered the public collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and the Philharmonie de Paris.