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One Thousand and One Dreams

Photo Courtesy of Yasmina Alaoui and Marco Guerra

Rarely does digitally enhanced photography entrance the viewer the way Yasmina Alaoui and Marco Guerra’s work does. In their life-sized photographic series “One Thousand and One Dreams”, statuesque bodies appear frozen in time, covered completely in meticulously detailed, contemporary Arabic henna patterns. The effect is transcending, drawing the viewer delicately and gracefully into each form.

Alaoui and Guerra were recently winners in the Christiania Arts Foundation’s “The New Classic Nude” Second Edition. Each artwork begins with a black and white nude photograph by Guerra. Layers of Alaoui’s complex ink drawings are then digitally fused with the protrait, with breathtaking results.
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