Faceless Head No. 042
Artistic Description of the Head
The face features marked vertical incisions on the top of the skull, evoking sculpted hair or ritual scarification. Red, yellow, and green pigments enhance the roughness of the clay, giving this presence a vibrant intensity. The half-closed eyes, angular nose, and discreet mouth create an impression of meditation, as if this head holds an ancestral memory.
Artistic Description of the Collection
In 100 Faceless Heads, this piece explores the encounter between raw material and color as a mark of life. It illustrates the tension between silence and expression, between erasure and trace.
Symbolism
The head with colored scars symbolizes memory inscribed in the body and skin. Each engraved line and each touch of pigment remind us that individual and collective history is written in the flesh and in the earth.
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.
