Faceless Head No. 021
Artistic Description of the Head
This head, with its barely incised features, seems contained within a deliberate stillness. The eyes are mere slits, the mouth a closed opening, creating an impression of muteness and profound calm. The roughness of the surface evokes dust, stone, and time, as if the face were frozen in its original material.
Artistic Description of the Collection
In 100 Faceless Heads, this sculpture illustrates the idea of inner silence. It embodies a voice that chooses not to speak, and yet, in this muteness, there is an expressive force that dialogues with absence.
Symbolism
The Head of Silence questions the power of restraint and the unspoken. It evokes wisdom, secrecy, or the buried memory that the material holds within itself.
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 story suspended in time. 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.
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.
