This head features vivid touches of color contrasting with the rawness of clay. A dark fabric band wraps around the upper part, resembling a headdress or crown. The pigments – yellow, red, violet, white – evoke ritual markings or body paint.
Within 100 Faceless Heads, this work highlights the encounter between raw matter and symbolic color. The erased or absent face comes alive through painted marks, suggesting both ornamentation and the language of signs.
The colorful marks symbolize the persistence of identity and cultural memory, even in the absence of facial features. They remind us that individuality can be expressed through symbols, colors, and rituals rather than physical traits.
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.
