The Urban Archaeology of Damien MarchandBorn in 1968 and currently based in the vibrant cultural hub of Lyon, Damien Marchand has emerged as a definitive voice in contemporary digital-image art. His practice is an obsessive exploration of Décollage Pop, a visual language rooted in the aesthetics of urban decay and the layered history of street advertising. Through a sophisticated digital process, Marchand reconstructs the experience of the city, simulating the act of peeling, tearing, and scratching through successive strata of printed media to reveal a hidden, chromatic depth beneath the sur…