Head Without a Face No. 72
Artistic Description of the Head
This head is adorned with touches of vibrant colors that contrast with the roughness of the clay. A dark band of fabric encircles the upper part, like a headdress or crown. The applied pigments—yellow, red, purple, white—are reminiscent of ritual markings or body paint.
Artistic Description of the Collection
In the series 100 Heads Without Faces, this work illustrates the encounter between raw material and symbolic color. The face, absent or erased, comes alive through the painted markings, evoking both ornamentation and the language of signs.
Symbolism
The colored markings symbolize the persistence of identity and cultural memory, even when the face disappears. They remind us that individuality can be expressed in ways other than physical features: through signs, colors, and rituals.
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.
