Faceless Head No. 036
Artistic description of the head
The surface of this head, corroded by rust and punctuated by hollows, evokes muffled whispers. The marks on the material seem to contain traces of erased histories, like a distant echo that refuses to disappear.
Artistic description of the collection
The 100 Faceless Heads series explores the interplay between absence and presence. Each of these sculptures embodies a buried collective memory, offering the viewer a space for reflection on the passage of time and the erosion of memories.
Symbolism
This work embodies the echoes of forgotten voices, of collective memories that persist despite the corrosion of time. It questions the fragility of memory and the necessity of preserving the human trace.
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.
