Head Without a Face No. 004
Artistic Description of the Head
This face bears the deep imprints of the material, as if each crack and roughness retraces an ancient history. The half-erased features, highlighted by scars and a metallic incision, reflect the tension between fragility and resilience. The expression seems both gentle and marked by hardship, oscillating between presence and erasure.
Artistic Description of the Collection
The “100 Heads Without Faces” series explores memory and identity through fragmented figures. Each sculpture becomes a trace of humanity put to the test, where the faces become archives of what remains despite oblivion.
Symbolism
This head illustrates resilience in the face of the wounds of time. It symbolizes the human capacity to carry its scars as so many stories, transforming pain into visible memory.
A sculpted memory, a universal story
The “100 Heads WITHOUT Faces” collection brings together one hundred unique sculptures, handcrafted from terracotta and rusted metal. These works embody the invisible faces of our collective history: undocumented migrants drowned at sea, victims of slavery, those forgotten in genocides, the anonymous whose memories are fading.
Each of these heads, deliberately devoid of features, symbolizes a life, a past, a suspended history. Faceless, they become the silent bearers of individual and collective memories, inviting us to reflect on our shared humanity.
Through this series, the artist invites us to acknowledge these erased lives and to rebuild bridges between the past and the future. “I open the graves of the undocumented migrants who drown in the seas and in the deserts, I denounce the macabre sounds of the cannons of war…”, he affirms, thus expressing the emotional and political power of this work.
“100 Heads WITHOUT Faces” is much more than an art collection: it is a sculptural archive, a call to remembrance, to dialogue, and to a better understanding of our common roots. Faceless Head no.
Passionate about collective memory and questions of identity, the artist works with clay and metal to give form to what is often invisible or forgotten. Through the series “100 Heads Without Faces,” he offers a space for reflection and dialogue on the wounds of the past and the hopes for a more just future.
