Faceless Head No. 28
Artistic Description of the Head
This head appears to be sculpted by erosion itself. The features are barely perceptible, as if the face had been gnawed away by time or covered with a veil of memory. The rough texture accentuates the fragility of the figure and its gradual disappearance.
Artistic Description of the Collection
In 100 Faceless Heads, this work illustrates the disappearance of the individual behind the material. It questions the boundary between portrait and abstraction, between preserved memory and dissolved identity.
Symbolism
The near-disappearance of the features evokes loss, oblivion, or the dissolution of identities in collective history. It thus becomes a metaphor for anonymity and the fragility of existence.
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.
