Born in Switzerland, Marianne Leber has traveled extensively, both professionally and personally. These journeys—across cultures and disciplines—profoundly inform her artistic practice.

For Leber, collage represents a uniquely human ability: to mine the past, retrieve meaningful fragments, recontextualize them, and shape entirely new realities alive in the present. This ritual of reinvention echoes throughout human history—in poetry, politics, science, music, and family life.

In today’s fractured world—where shared values feel increasingly fragile and fear often clouds perception—she views collage-making as a powerful reminder of our capacity to reimagine what is broken and to invent new forms of wholeness.

The photographic materials in her work are drawn from a life of travel and decades of creative work across the arts, fashion, design, film, television, and corporate branding. Throughout her career, she has combined disparate elements to create immersive, real-time environments - animating the zeitgeist in fashion contexts, building stage sets, and transforming cultural spaces. While that work was spatial and three-dimensional, her camera was always present.

In her two-dimensional collage practice, classical dualities resurface: the fragile truth within opulent beauty, the pull of presence within absence, and the paradox of crafting vivid, energetic compositions that are, in essence, still and flat.

Through collage, Leber seeks to give beauty a visual voice and evoke the image of a timeless ideal—one she believes continues to underlie our longing for coherence, purpose, and connection.