Finalists – Picto Fashion Photography Award 2026 : Marie Wengler

Marie Wengler, born in 1992 in Copenhagen, is a visual artist and social sciences researcher working at the intersection of photography, archives, and social inquiry. Her practice examines the boundaries of “normality” in society. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Rotterdam, Tokyo, Thessaloniki, Biella, Deauville, and Paris, and published in prestigious outlets including the HUMAN journal (Prix Pictet, 2023). In 2024, she took part in the Tremplins Jeunes Talents residency in northern France and will join a full residency at Villa Perochon in the south. From 2025 to 2026, she will participate in the photobook mentorship program at the Centre de la Photographie Genève with Ann Griffin, developing a project into a book. Her works are held in the collections of Les Franciscaines Museum and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts.

In her ongoing series The Eyes of Others Are Our Prisons; Their Thoughts Our Cages (2022–), Marie Wengler confronts her great-grandmother Kate at the same age she is today, bridging a century of experience. Kate grew up under strict gender norms, facing an arranged marriage at 19, early motherhood, and undiagnosed depression shaped by World War I—roles she never chose. Creative and intellectually curious, she was denied education and artistic freedom.
Through staged self-portraits, archival photographs, revisited locations, and objects, Marie merges past and present. Prints are torn, stitched, and recomposed, turning time itself into both subject and material, reflecting the continuity and contrast of lived experience across generations.

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