Faceless Head No. 83
Artistic Description of the Head
This head is marked by the presence of a metal mesh and plant fibers that cling to its contours like a fragile cage. The face seems imprisoned but also protected, traversed by lines of cracks and hollows that resemble scars. A light feather placed at the top introduces an unexpected poetic touch, like an escape towards freedom.
Artistic Description of the Collection
In 100 Faceless Heads, this piece explores the tensions between constraint and lightness, confinement and liberation. The rusted metal, a symbol of chains and shackles, coexists with the feather, a sign of fragility and dreams.
Symbolism
The work refers to the social, political, and historical constraints that confine human beings, but also to humanity’s capacity to find, even in constraint, openings towards imagination and hope. The feather is a metaphor for resilience and lightness in the face of the weight of matter.
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.
