Silence Brisé

Faceless Head No. 018

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

 

 

Artistic Description of the Head
This terracotta head, marked by corrosion and cracks, seems to emerge from a long silence. The rugged reliefs and oxidized surface reflect a constrained memory, fractured but still present, like a suppressed voice seeking to be freed.

Artistic Description of the Collection
100 Faceless Heads brings together one hundred sculptures that embody fragments of human stories. Each head becomes a silent witness, carrying personal and collective memories. Together, they form a sensitive mosaic of the human condition in the face of time and oblivion.

Symbolism
The work suggests the fragile resilience of buried memories. It symbolizes the struggle between the silence imposed by history and the vital impulse that drives us to transmit and bear witness.

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Description

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 story suspended in time. 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.

Additional information

Dimensions 20 × 30 cm