One of the secrets of art is mastery over technology. When the first cave man mixed the juice of a wild berry with some tree sap and began to daub his walls, he was gathering what his environment had on offer in order to create and express something inside him.
FOR DAHMANE, artistic freedom only came when he was able to mould and manoeuvre the controls of Photoshop software on his computer and create complex photomontages from the kaleidoscopic strands of his imagination.
Like a director with the fundamentals of mis-on-scène, he felt enriched by the power over the elements in his pictures. Dahmane had found the key to his own dreams: a way to set his models precisely where he wanted, against the exact background he had envisaged, even if that background was as much fantasy as reality. He had reached the nirvana phase that mystics enter when through the power of the mind they rise as if weightless into the air.
Born in Paris in 1959, Dahmane was always going to pursue a creative life.... MORE
Images from "Crossing The Rubicon"
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