Cicatrices du Temps

Head WITHOUT a Face No. 003

 

Dimensions: 25 × 35 cm
Materials: Terracotta, steel filings, natural pigments, rust
Year: 2015
Availability: Unique piece
Price: Upon request

 

Artistic Description of the Head
Shaped in terracotta and marked by rust, this head bears the imprints of time. Its irregular surfaces and engravings evoke silent scars, visible and invisible traces left by the erosion of memory and history.

 

Artistic Description of the Collection
100 Heads, 100 Faces is an exploration of human memories, both individual and collective. Each head embodies a presence, a living archive that bears witness to past lives and forgotten voices. Together, they form a constellation of erased yet persistent faces.

 

Symbolism
The work questions the inevitable passage of time and the fragility of memories. It embodies the tension between disappearance and resistance, between forgetting and the necessity of remembering.

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The “100 Heads WITHOUT Faces” Collection

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.

A committed and universal message

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.