Among the crowd of dark matter candidates, light scalar and vector particles have been the focus
of intense theoretical and experimental investigations over the past 15 years. However, those are
always described as scalar or vector fields. Instead, we investigate their embedding as antisymmetric rank-three and rank-two tensor fields. By reconciling theoretical investigations, regarding the
nature of the dualities relating the standard and tensorial descriptions and their different possible
Stueckelberg gauge representations, and phenomenological examinations considering the effective
interactions between tensor fields and the Standard Model, we prove these tensor fields to provide
a completely distinct framework. This alternative set allows for different couplings and therefore
different experimental signatures for the detection or production of dark matter at both low energy
and colliders.