Low relief is a type of sculpture where the subjects represented stand out slightly from the background. Choukry Benmansour's original choice is to  release only very fine veins from the stone.      The technique is unprecedented. It is necessary to hollow out the greater part of the surface of the stone so that only the fragile and sharp lines appear in relief, which are then painted with a very fine brush.     After a preminilary  drawing, the marble, white and quite light, is first removed with a gouge, then with smaller and smaller burrs as you approach the rib. Unlike working on the canvas, you don't have the right to make mistakes. One extra brush stroke and the relief disappears, without being able to resume it. The lines are so fine that the artist, to check their regularity, relies on the touch of his thumb rather than his eye: “I do it instinctively, I noticed it one day when I saw the abrasions on my finger ”.     Choukry Benmansour had to carry out a long search. First, to perfect his cutting methods, but also to find the pigments that allow a paint that adheres well and has a metallic appearance in harmony with the material. "I have some little secrets," he says. Not to mention the prosaic questions: how to fix a clip on the back of the marble slab so that it can be hung on the wall, in complete safety, like a canvas ... Yves de Saint Jacob - Editor-in-chief Algiers Paris.