This head carries oblique incisions across the cheeks and temples, resembling ritual scarifications. Yet it is the eyes—two deep cavities glowing with incandescent red—that command attention. The closed mouth suggests withheld words, an inner speech.
Within 100 Faceless Heads, this work embodies the tension between silence and inner intensity. The face is reduced to abstract markings, but the illuminated eyes radiate a vivid and unsettling presence.
The red eyes evoke fire, vitality, but also anger or restrained pain. They symbolize an untamed inner force that endures, even as the rest of the face dissolves into raw matter.
A sculpted memory, a universal story
The “100 Faceless Heads” collection brings together one hundred unique sculptures, hand-shaped in terracotta and rusted metal. These works embody the invisible faces of our collective history: undocumented migrants drowned at sea, victims of slavery, the forgotten of genocides, the nameless whose memories fade away.
Each of these heads, deliberately devoid of features, symbolizes a life, a past, a suspended story. Faceless, they become the silent bearers of individual and collective memories, inviting us to reflect on our shared humanity.
Through this series, the artist calls on us to recognize these erased lives and to rebuild bridges between past and future. “I raise a glass to the undocumented who perish in seas and deserts, I denounce the macabre thunder of cannons and wars…” he declares, expressing the emotional and political power of this work.
“100 Faceless Heads” is far more than an art collection: it is a sculptural photo library, a call to memory, to dialogue, and to a deeper 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.
